svg-to-dia

Dia is an open-source diagram editor.
It supports SVG pictograms.
svg-to-dia converts ordinary SVG in the format supported by Dia.

How to use

• Prepare files:

  svg-to-dia --name my-shapes my-file1.svg my-file2.svg my-file3.svg

  the above command will create a sheets/ and a shapes/ folders.

• Move the generated files to dia’s folder

  mv sheets/* ~/.dia/sheets
  mv shapes/* ~/.dia/shapes

• Don’t forget to restart dia

• If you intend to publish, make sure to edit the .sheet files to add human-readable descriptions (multiple languages if you can)
• … and to edit the .shape files to add better coordinates of attachment points

Requirements

• Python
• ImageMagick

License

svg-to-dia is released in the public domain, see UNLICENSE file.