It would be very helpful to have an option for translating Visio files in Studio.

This option did exist some time ago and we used it extensively but then SDL, quite unfortunately, removed it. For corporate server-based users like us, buying extra programs in AppStore is not a very good idea, nor is it appreciated by our management, given the price of SDL software and the annual fee we pay SDL for technical support.

Whenever we have Visio files now, it is a complete nightmare since we need to type in manually all the things we have in our termbases and in TM.

Please add Visio back!

Tatiana Popova

Stepan Konev over 7 years ago

It was MS who removed it, not SDL. Starting from 2013 version, MS Office does not support its 'old' vdx format. Formerly, you could create or download a file from Internet for free (VisioFilter.sdlftsettings from here for example: translation-blog.com/ ) that allowed you to work with *.vdx by re-saving your Visio.vsd file as Visio.vdx to translate it. From 2013, vdx is no longer available. And accordingly you cannot re-save a vsd(x) file as vdx any longer.

The only way is to use older versions of Visio for conversion.
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Tatiana Popova over 7 years ago

Paul, thanks for your comment. I will look into how we did that but we do ask SDL to add Visio format to Studio functionality.
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Paul over 7 years ago

There has never been a filetype for Visio files in the product. It has always been an app, or you just create your own custom xml.
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It would be very helpful to have an option for translating Visio files in Studio.