[TriLUG] linux apps on desktop that support *.mdb, *.vsd, *.dwg and *.mpp

[Jim Ray]

Ah, sometimes no choice is available.  The customer is always right...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Fickenscher [mailto:elfick at trilug.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 8:39 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] linux apps on desktop that support 
> *.mdb, *.vsd, *.dwg and *.mpp
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 07:54:07PM -0400, Jim Ray wrote:
> > Well, in the vain of getting that customer to save as 
> another format, 
> > it's the only another quasi portable CAD format to my knowledge.
> 
> Thats true, it is... But it is also highly inefficient. A 
> given .dwg will be approximately 30% larger when converted to 
> .dxf even though there is no information added. In fact, the 
> .dxf most likely has less information than the .dwg. Also, I 
> don't think any app uses .dxf as its native format, so it 
> suffers a conversion coming and going.