For Fedora 20, you'll need the libvisio and libvisio-tools packages that are now available, which you can install via the following command: SVG-making it possible to open them in any SVG editor in Fedora. If you prefer to use Inkscape or any other open source SVG editor (such as Karbon14 or Xara,) Eilidh McAdam produced libvisio which works with the libwpd tools for converting. You can install LibreOffice Draw with the following command: (Screenshot of LibreOffice Draw opening up a Visio VSD diagram.) This support is now available in Fedora's version of LibreOffice and has been since Fedora 17. VSD format files in LibreOffice Draw last summer. Thankfully, Summer of Code students Eilidh McAdam and Fridrich Strba implemented support for opening. The format is commonly used for infrastructure and architecture documentation and planning-and less commonly, for user interface design and planning. Open source tools haven't been able to open Visio (.VSD format) diagrams for a pretty long time.
If you need an open source option for opening Visio files, a revived open source application for creating diagrams, or a lesser-known open source tool for converting Visio® stencils, these tips are for you. From the 'Alternatives to Microsoft® Visio®' department, here are three tips that should help designers who use Visio in an open source environment.
If you're a big-time open source fanatic like me, you probably get questions about open source alternatives to proprietary tools rather frequently.