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Is there a way to export drawings made with Google Docs to Visio? Maybe through some other software. I can see that Lucidcharts supports both Google Drive and export to Visio, but does it actually support opening drawing file made in Google Docs?

Arnold
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Let's see which file formats are shared between the two if we are moving data from Google Docs to Visio!

Google Docs' supported export file formats for Drawings:

  • PDF Document (.pdf)
  • Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg)
  • PNG image (.png)
  • JPEG image (.jpg)

Visio's supported import file formats:

  • AutoCAD Drawing File Format (.dwg, .dxf)
  • Compressed Enhanced Metafile (.emz)
  • Enhanced Metafile (.emf)
  • Graphics Interchange Format (.gif)
  • JPEG File Interchange Format (.jpg)
  • Portable Network Graphics (.png)
  • Scalable Vector Graphics Drawing (.svg, .svgz)
  • Tag Image File Format (.tif, .tiff)
  • Windows Bitmap (.bmp, .dib)
  • Windows Metafile (.wmf)

So, we can use the following file formats: SVG, PNG, or JPEG. With drawings, you'd want to work with vector rather than raster graphics, so you're left with SVG.

iglvzx
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I tried using the svg export and then importing into Visio, but Google Draw does not seem to create a svg file which is usable in Visio. It's a single object which can't be ungrouped.

bpeikes
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You can convert it to a svg, jpeg, etc. but you can't convert to vdx. I also don't think a lot of people know about Google Drawings and Microsoft Visio.

Jason Anderson
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Lucidchart also supports .svg import and you can export a diagram from Lucidchart in Visio format (.vdx). Hopefully that is helpful.

BradHanks
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