There is already some kind of SVG import available (SvgNodes / only in ImageMap mode at this time). However SVG drawings contain only low-level graphics primitives, and the control cannot infer any higher-level structure from a drawing, such as nodes and connections.

VisioImporter supports shapes only from several Visio 2003 standard stencils. If it does not recognize some shapes from the client's files, you can handle the ShapeImported event and set the node.Shape according to the Visio shape id.

It sounds like the rest of the problems are related to an unrecognized measurement unit. You can do some post-processing to normalize pen widths and font sizes as work-around. If you send a sample vdx to support@mindfusion.eu, our developer will check what actually happens.

Stoyan

So far we've checked how arrowheads shapes are imported, but determining what arrowhead to set looks like a lost cause. The Visio SDK for the <EndArrow> tag says that "0" means no arrowhead and if you look through the file you will see just one <EndArrow> set to 4, everything else is 0. The non-zero one is defined in stylesheet number 11, but then this stylesheet is not used anywhere (there would be a LineStyle="11" if it was used).

So for now you will have to loop over the links after importing and set their HeadShape to Triangle to make them look as in the Visio file. For the next release we'll try to find out from where else Visio infers what arrowhead to show.

Our developer will look at the other issues tomorrow.

Thanks for the help.  I'll give that a shot.

Thanks Stoyan!