Diagram Export

[davisford]

Hi, what are the options for diagram export.  I know you can do CTRL-T and save a diagram in various formats.  I know you can generate a digram-only RTF file that includes all the diagrams embedded in the RTF.

I know you can export to XMI and include diagrams, but it seems this only writes out the XML that references the other XMI elements -- it does not embed the actual binary into the XML.  Is there a way to do this?  If I could do this, it would actually provide exactly what I want.

The end goal -- for a specification system -- the desire is to capture all the diagrams out of an EA model as EMF or WMF format.  These diagrams want to find their way into a FrameMaker-driven publishing system.  Currently, I'm guessing what we'd have to do is export the diagram-only RTF, and manually copy out each diagram, store this in the specification repository, etc....blah.   Looking for a much better way..is there one?

Thx,
Davis

[Eve]

How about an automation client that iterates over all the packages in the model and generates any diagrams found to the format wanted?  It shouldn't be hard to write.

[davisford]

actually simon, i found what i needed already.  i did not realize this until later, but including diagram on XMI export does include an images directory with each individual binary (in this case .emf form).  they are named by GUID, and i believe the GUID is also referenced in the XMI, so it is easy to link them up.

this is precisely the functionality i was after.