I thought I’d be deliberately difficult by A. I decided to try out hyperlinks on shapes on another page. It wasn’t able to detect or render the “sloppy, sketchy” theme that I applied:īut you can select and copy the text, which I thought was pretty cool. Here’s the flow from within Visio on my PC:
Interesting Test Workflowīeing able to open drawings from Dropbox set up an interesting workflow for creating this article: as I made changes to my test drawing on my ThinkPad X1 Yoga (also brand spankin’ new!) then saved them, Dropbox automatically uploaded them to the cloud, where the VSD Viewer could get at them. So I sent it to VSD Viewer, where it opened without any problems. When I tapped it, it offered appropriate actions as to what to do with the file: The Visio attachment registered with the VSD Viewer app and displayed the appropriate icon. I did try emailing the file to myself, however, just to test the horror-scenario, haha. Oh well, it’s easy enough to browse to Dropbox folders from within VSD Viewer itself. Interestingly, when I browsed to the drawing in the Dropbox app, and clicked on it, Dropbox informed me that there was “No Preview Available”, and there didn’t seem to be an option to open it from Dropbox. VSD Viewer gently held may hand and allowed me to connect to my Dropbox and OneDrive accounts, where I immediately found lots of Visio goodies to try out. So kudos to Nektony or Apple or both, because this is really slick–and the way it should be. But I sincerely imagined horror scenarios of me e-mailing Visio diagrams to myself and saving them to god-knows-where on the iPad, then opening them up.
Perhaps this cloud connecting stuff is standard in iOS. Now, I am a bit of an iTard, in that I don’t really get into the nitty-gritty details of anything Apple-related. When I started it up, I was immediately pleased at how easy it was to connect to various cloud repositories: Here are the links to the individual videos:
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The page is titled “Free Mac Visio Viewer”, so I’m not sure if everything shown in the videos applies to the iOS app, though. At the time of writing, you are sent to a page that actually has four videos. The VSD Viewer’s start screen has a link to “watch the video”, to get you started. Still, Visio viewing is a niche, and niches can always command higher prices.
I can appreciate the amount of development work that goes into software, but unfortunately the app-economy has made it a sell-lots-at-a-low-price market. I’m glad I had the code, because in the Land of Apps, $10 is pretty expensive. But I hope you’ll see some images and read some details that will help you decide whether it is something you could put to good use! Getting StartedĮvidently, the good folks at Nektony seem to have a bit of interest in Visio, as their website “mentions” that they have Visio viewers for a nice portfolio of platforms:Īnyway, I found the iPad app in the store:Īnd promptly installed it, using my voucher code. It isn’t particularly exhaustive, nor is it organized super-efficiently. So here’s my meandering review of the VSD Viewer. With the nice big screen and boosted performance, I figured it was time for me to try out my complementary version of the VSD viewer that Nektony was kind enough to send me. Yes, I forked over several hundred dolares for a shiny-new iPad Air 2, with a gold back (I know, BLING!) Not that you’ll ever see the back, because, of course, I had to wrap the fragile thing in one of these.
#Nektony vsd viewer free software
I finally got around to buying a fairly modern iPad that hasn’t had enough time for Apple to download the “slow-down-the-system-so-that-the-user-will-upgrade” software onto it. If you’ve ever been frustrated by trying to open a Visio attachment while browsing e-mails from your iPad on the couch, then you might be interested in this Visio viewer…for the iPad!
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