I have by no means spent days upon days performing rigorous tests of the Visio Viewer, but I figured I had better at least start with the files I threw at Nektony’s viewer, then finish up with observations and ideas that popped into my head while I worked with the product. Perhaps I need to install some sort of zip-handler app on the iPad. This seems to be more of an iPad problem, or perhaps it is a Visio Guy problem. The iPad didn’t really seem smart enough to look inside the zip file, offer a list of contents, then proceed to offer the same choices that I got when opening the non-zipped attachment. I did happen to try e-mailing a zipped file to myself. I like that I could still choose between the two viewers that I have installed, and getting to viewing was easy enough. Message, Mail, Add to Notes, Copy to Visio Viewer, Copy to VSD Viewer (Nektony’s), Import with Dropbox, Import with OneNote, Import with OneDrive, and More… My iPad Air 2 offered a dizzying array of possibilities–most of which were probably not possibilities, but I didn’t test: Your iPad will pop-up a list of choices for viewing the file. If you receive an e-mail on your iOS device that has a Visio document as an attachment, just click on it. Microsoft’s viewer also handled multiple OneDrive accounts (I have two Hotmail accounts that I use all day long, remember Hotmail?) Nektony’s seemed to offer only one OneDrive account–or at least I couldn’t figure out how to add a second one. I imagine it’s not that hard to download files from these services directly to the iPad, then open them up in the viewer, but hey: computers aren’t lazy so that we can be! If you’re keeping score, Nektony offers DropBox, Box and Google Drive, but not SharePoint. This is fine for me for the most part, but I do use DropBox for most of my work stuff, and only use OneDrive for photos and the occasional Visio Guy freebie download. Visio Viewer offered up these under the Open > Add a Place menus: Since nobody knows how to actually transfer files to an iPad, I was quite curious to see which cloud services were offered. There are a few ways to get files into your shiny, new Visio Viewer. Isn’t it adorable?īefore I dig in deep, here’s a few links that you might be looking for: I love that it works on that little 4s screen. Now they said iOS, so not only does it work in my iPad Air 2, but also on our aging iPhone 4s (just to see if would work): I whipped out my iPad, fired up the App Store, and sure enough, a search for “visio” turned up something shiny and new. Yes, Microsoft have finally released the Visio Viewer for iOS. Just last week, this appeared in my inbox: (By the way, they offer versions for both iOS and for Android.) If you’ve been waiting for Microsoft to get into the game, then your wait is FINALLY over. Nektony has provided an option for several years. The trouble is, it hasn’t been easy to do without some sort of viewer installed. Now that we all have tablets and huge-screened smart phones strewn all over our homes and offices, looking at Visio diagrams while on-the-go or on-the-sofa is no longer a weird thing to want to do.
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