Friday, January 31, 2014

Got a Multilayer Visio Diagram?

MS Visio is a great tool for graphically representing various processes and objects. Visio has a Layers feature that can make using complex diagrams much easier. You can assign the objects in a diagram to different layers and then filter the drawing by toggling ON and Off the certain layers in the diagram.

The experienced users of MS Visio already have discovered how they can use those layers in Visio to their advantage. They use layers to group different objects in complex Visio drawings to offer different views on the same information pool.

MS Visio with no doubt is a powerful and multi-functional tool but it has no Macintosh version. If you need to open a Visio drawing on Mac using one of the Visio viewers, that is a big chance that you will not be able to use the advantages of layers functionality. But not with VSD Viewer Mac!

View Visio layers on mac

Visio layering system is rather complex. A Visio shape can belong to no layer, one layer or multiple layers simultaneously, and a layer can be visible or invisible; printable or non-printable. When viewing a Visio drawing with VSD Viewer Mac you can toggle on and off the layers visibility, export document to pdf, or print it including visible and invisible layers, or just the selected layers.




Find VSD Viewer Mac on Mac AppStore
Find VSD Viewer for iPad on iTunes AppStore

Friday, January 17, 2014

Visio Viewer for iPad: Need a Bit More Control on Your Visio Files?

It is known, that Steve Jobs was a stickler for “non-file-manager” technology. In fact the iOS system simple and easy to use because the user doesn’t have to do anything with files or folders. Everything is taken care of by the apps. However, some of us are more comfortable with file management.

So as iPad doesn't have a built-in file manager like a 'normal' computer, instead each file that you have on it is stored within an app - so you need to go into an app to manage its content.

VSD Viewer allows you to view, manage and organize the Visio drawings on your iPad.
  • Click the “Edit” button on File Manager panel.
  • To create a new folder click “Add”, enter the folder name and press “OK”.
  • To rename file or folder, select it, then click “Rename” and enter a new name.
  • To move selected files, click “Move”, then select the destination and click “Choose”.
  • To send a drawing by email or to another application (DropBox, Google Drive, etc), use Open In command.

VSD Viewer for iPad
Such a seemingly small, but reasonable additions  makes collaboration with VSD Viewer super quick and simple,


Find VSD Viewer Mac on Mac AppStore
Find VSD Viewer for iPad on iTunes AppStore

Friday, January 10, 2014

Cost-Effective Solution for Cross-Platform Collaboration

VSD Viewer for Mac enables opening and viewing .vsd, .vsdx, .vdx format Visio drawings and diagrams easily. Viewing Visio documents is as simple as drag and dropping Visio file to the Application window.

Open Visio file on Mac with VSD Viewer


VSD Viewer accurately reflects all the details of the source Visio file formatting: text size, color and alignment. Text subscript and superscript are processed as well as dimension and state objects. Even the line arrows and tabulated text are displayed the way they are shown in Visio.

View Visio  drawing on Mac

Various inherited fonts, line and fill colors, tabulated text in frames and tables, uncommon interspacing line heights, shape lines width and type, backgrounds, fills, even subscripts and superscripts look the same as they open in original MS Visio.
VSD Viewer also ease renders documents with built-in Windows-native drawing objects: Metafile images (WMF/EMF) and even OLE objects as well.



When utilizing MS Visio to simplify complex information with professional diagrams, team members can work together on a single diagram for efficient seamless cooperation,, while VSD Viewers for Mac and iPad expands the cooperation further and higher between these very different systems: OS X, iOS and Windows.


Find VSD Viewer Mac on Mac AppStore
Find VSD Viewer for iPad on iTunes AppStore