OmniGraffle Pro is a member of that rare category of software: insanely great. It's worth every cent of the registration.
This is a request for OmniGraffle to support importing from more external file types than it currently does (which is one of the only failings I'll level at the program, apart from occasional slowness in large documents), specifically, Claris Impact (may it rest in peace).
I finally bit the bullet and bought myself an Intel MacBook Pro. Lovely. Except, I realised with a sinking feeling that all my documents created with Classic applications which don't have native OS-X equivalents, like Claris Impact, are now inaccessible. Sure, I still have access via Claris Impact on my old PPC machine, but I want to convert the data up to something I can continue to use and am very uneasy about the prospect of dawdling, only to find in a few years that even PPC Macs are out to pasture and the data is lost forever.
I have a handfull of really, really big Claris Impact docs. None of them are particularly complex in terms of the layout- no funky shading or layout elements unique to Impact, but they do have lots and lots of simpler elements; boxes, lines, and things like box/text/line objects the grouping of which I would like to preserve. I've done things like network diagrams and family trees this way (not as flowchart objects, because I needed more flexibility. These are just collections of geometric primitives and lots of text labels)
Obviously, to be able to bring such a doc into OmniGraffle would be fantastic. I don't mind if I lose a little formatting, just so the bones are there. I can re-polish it.
It seems to me that the answer to this problem ought to be simpler than I suspect it really is. Obviously, each program has some kind of (probably proprietary) internal document structure to account for layout elements, size, placement, grouping hierarchy and so on. But surely a line is a line, and a square is a square? Is there any way I can get my Impact documents into OmniGraffle, or indeed any other OS-X native program?
Thanks in advance.
This is a request for OmniGraffle to support importing from more external file types than it currently does (which is one of the only failings I'll level at the program, apart from occasional slowness in large documents), specifically, Claris Impact (may it rest in peace).
I finally bit the bullet and bought myself an Intel MacBook Pro. Lovely. Except, I realised with a sinking feeling that all my documents created with Classic applications which don't have native OS-X equivalents, like Claris Impact, are now inaccessible. Sure, I still have access via Claris Impact on my old PPC machine, but I want to convert the data up to something I can continue to use and am very uneasy about the prospect of dawdling, only to find in a few years that even PPC Macs are out to pasture and the data is lost forever.
I have a handfull of really, really big Claris Impact docs. None of them are particularly complex in terms of the layout- no funky shading or layout elements unique to Impact, but they do have lots and lots of simpler elements; boxes, lines, and things like box/text/line objects the grouping of which I would like to preserve. I've done things like network diagrams and family trees this way (not as flowchart objects, because I needed more flexibility. These are just collections of geometric primitives and lots of text labels)
Obviously, to be able to bring such a doc into OmniGraffle would be fantastic. I don't mind if I lose a little formatting, just so the bones are there. I can re-polish it.
It seems to me that the answer to this problem ought to be simpler than I suspect it really is. Obviously, each program has some kind of (probably proprietary) internal document structure to account for layout elements, size, placement, grouping hierarchy and so on. But surely a line is a line, and a square is a square? Is there any way I can get my Impact documents into OmniGraffle, or indeed any other OS-X native program?
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by baliset; 2006-05-24 at 10:21 PM..