I would like view the vsd files in Mac OS X. Is there a Visio Viewer for Mac OS X? This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. VSD Viewer Mac is a tool designed to support the use of the Visio documents by Mac OS X users. VSD Viewer supports binary VSD 2000-2013, and XML-based VDX/VSDX document formats. VSD Viewer Mac opens the file directly on a computer without conversion on external Web Servers. VSD Viewer is a professional Visio Drawings-viewer for OS X. VSD Viewer opens documents of all Visio drawing formats - binary VSD 2000-2013, and XML-based VDX/VSDX. The app opens complex formatted Visio Drawings, renders all the drawing content including: regular shapes with formatting, rich formatted texts, graphic objects and images, windows.
This article is written intended to guide you how to Install Microsoft Visio Mac / MacBook Pro / MacBook Air running OS X El Capitan.
One program that missing when using MacBook is there is no Microsoft Visio for Mac. Although Microsoft has been officially releasing Microsoft Office (e.g Word, Excel, PowerPoint) for Mac, Microsoft still does not release Visio for Mac, at least until now.
Since I work as a network administrator, Microsoft Visio is very important for me to draw network diagram / topology. Although there are many Visio alternatives for Mac such ConceptDraw, LucidChart, SmartDraw, or OmniGraffle according to my opinion they can not replace Visio. It is the best because of its simplicity and easy to use. Another reason is I am already familiar with Visio when running Windows and also already bought the software license so buying another program for this purpose is wasting money.
In this article I will not talk about which software is better. I want to show you how to install Microsoft Visio on Mac running OS X El Capitan on top of Wine, thanks to WineHQ team for making this great tool. It should be applicable on previous version of OS X such as OS X Yosemite, OS X Mavericks, and Mac OS X Mountain Lion.
Lets start with the installation process
Windows programs can be run on OS X, Linux and BSD via WINE (Windows Emulator) so first we need to install wine and winetricks.
We can install wine and winetricks packages using Homebrew, follow this post how to install Wine on OS X.
Define Visio Home directory
Visio Osx
Although it is not necessary, it is better to set environment folder for Visio. We will set it under $HOME/.vision2007. Inside your $HOME directory (/Users/your_username), create .visio2007 directory.
Perform Wine initialisation and setup of WINEPREFIX in .visio2007
We need several packages be installed to run Visio 2007. Those packages are gdiplus, msxml6, dotnet20, riched20, and corefonts. Install them using winetricks as follows:
Capture example of installing .Net Framework (dotnet20) is as in image below:
After installing the packages above, then run Wine configuration editor (winecfg)
In Wine configuration, under Libraries tab make sure that gdiplus, msxml6, riched20 are set to native. See image below!
Visio For Mac Os
Run Visio setup installation
Once the above dependency packages installed and configured, we are ready to run the installation.
After the installation completed and successful, you can run Visio using command below:
Visio should be running well without any problem.
Create visio script
To make it easier to run Visio using Terminal, create a script named as ‘visio’.
Copy and paste the following command into the visio script. Change the ‘your-username’ accordingly with yours.
Make it executable and then move it into $PATH
To run Visio, just type visio in Terminal.
When you need to open and view .vsd format Visio drawings and diagrams you need Enolsoft’s Visio Viewer for Mac OS (10.7 and higher). It provides zoom-in, zoom-out, rotate and text-search tools.
Visio Vsd Viewer Mac Os X
To view a large multi-page Visio file, you can select a display mode from four choices: Single Page, Single Page Continuous, Two Pages and Two Pages Continuous. A multi-tab display is also supported in case you need to switch between several visio files for comparison.
Visio Viewer For Mac Os
Besides providing Visio viewing for Mac users, the app also allows you to convert Visio files to PDFs. The converted PDF file all original elements intact — including lines, color and fill, and more.
Visio Viewer is available for US$29 at www.enolsoft.com . A demo is available for download.