Some questions about the Cisco stencils for Visio

[Chenoa Osayande]

Joel-

Yes, the latter would much more useful!



Chenoa


On Jan 25, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Joel Page wrote:

> (I've cross posted this to the OmniGraffle Extras forum as well,  
> just as an FYI)
>
> As we work more at bettering our Visio support, one singular fact  
> has presented itself: Lots of people really really need to make use  
> of the rather large library of Cisco stencils that are already  
> available for Visio.
>
> One of the problems that presents itself here in regard to that is  
> that the large majority of those stencils are making use of the  
> Enhanced MetaFile format (EMF), which OmniGraffle Professional  
> currently does not parse. We are currently discussing talking to the  
> folks who wrote the Visio binary file format parser for us to tackle  
> this issue, in the meantime I am considering undertaking the task of  
> creating these Cisco stencils for OmniGraffle (more or less from  
> scratch), however I do have some questions...
>
> I have seen a number of existing Cisco stencils for OmniGraffle that  
> are fairly abstract, as shown here:
>
> <http://people.omnigroup.com/jpage/stuff/Cisco-basic.png>
>
> I also notice that the actual Cisco stencils in Visio are far more  
> complex and detailed such as:
>
> <http://people.omnigroup.com/jpage/stuff/Access_Server-AS5400.png>
>
> So, the question is: Which of these styles are needed by the Graffle  
> community most?
>
> My guess is that it's the latter, but before I start working on my  
> gameplan here I need to know what direction I'm heading in.
>
> Please let me know here or over in the forum thread, and thanks!
>
>
> Joel Page
> Product Manager, OmniGraffle
> The Omni Group
>
>
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