Microsoft Visio filter

Microsoft Visio is a diagramming software. Visio files usually contain diagrams, charts, drawings used in many areas of life.

In this window, you can control how memoQ imports Microsoft Visio (*.vsd), or Microsoft Visio 2013 and newer (*.vsdx) drawings.

You may try this filter for other Visio files: The component memoQ uses for Visio drawings also supports Visio stencils (*.vss, *.vssx), templates (*.vst, *.vstx), and macro-enabled Visio files (*.vsdm, *.vssm, *.vstm).

Export old formats into new ones: memoQ can import files in the older Visio formats, but can export only into the new ones (file type ending with "x").

How to get here

  1. Start importing a Visio drawing.
  2. In the Document import options window, select Microsoft Visio filter, and click Change filter and configuration.
  3. The Document import settings window appears.

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What can you do?

Import or ignore layers, ScreenTips, or comments

You can import or ignore certain parts of the drawing. Here are the options you have:

  • Layers: Normally, memoQ does not import locked, invisible or non-printable layers. Check these check boxes as needed.
  • ScreenTips: In Visio drawings, ScreenTips are small windows that display descriptive text when you leave the mouse pointer over a shape. Normally, memoQ does not import them. To translate them, select the Import as translatable content radio button. To import them for reference, select the Import as memoQ comments radio button, and choose a level from the Category dropdown.
  • Comments: Normally, memoQ does not import comments from Visio files. People add comments to a drawing when they review it. These rarely need translation. To translate them anyway, select the Import as translatable content radio button. To import them for reference, select the Import as memoQ comments radio button, and choose a level from the Category dropdown.

Choose how to handle line breaks

In text boxes with several lines of text, there may be paragraph or line breaks. Normally, memoQ puts each paragraph into a new segment, and ignores line breaks.

  • To put the translation of one paragraph into more paragraphs: Under Paragraphs (Enter), select the Convert to inline tag and break segment at newline radio button.
  • To have the text box's whole content in one segment: Under Paragraphs (Enter), select the Convert to inline tag radio button.
  • To put the paragraph's translation into one paragraph but more than one segment: Under Line breaks (Shift+Enter), select the Convert to inline tag and break segment at newline radio button.
  • To see line breaks in the translation: Under Line breaks (Shift+Enter), select the Convert to inline tag radio button.

When you finish

In the Document import options window: Click OK again to start importing the documents.

  • If this is a cascading filter, you can change the settings of another filter in the chain: Click the name of the filter at the top of the window.