Which Visio versions open here?

Binary .vsd files from Visio 2000 through 2019, .vdx XML drawings from Visio 2003 – 2010, and .vsdx files from Visio 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021 and Microsoft 365, together with stencils (.vss, .vssx), templates (.vst, .vstx) and files with macros (.vsdm). Files from Visio 1 – 5 (the 1990s) open as well. On a test set of 430 real Visio files, 404 showed their diagram.

Why does a stencil (.vss) open as many pages?

A stencil has no drawing — only master shapes for dragging onto a page. When a file has no drawing pages, each master is shown as a page of its own, so you can see what the stencil contains and save any shape as SVG or PNG.

Why doesn’t the diagram match Visio exactly?

libvisio reproduces shapes, connectors and their arrowheads, fills, gradients, shadows, pictures and labels, but some Visio features are beyond it: theme effects like glow, bevel or reflection, and data graphics. When a diagram font — typically Calibri or Segoe UI — is missing on your device, a similar one is used and line breaks can move. Visio’s own thumbnail is displayed alongside for reference.

An Excel table or a chart is embedded in the diagram. Will I see it?

Yes, as the picture the object saved of itself — this is also what Visio shows until you double-click the object. The table cannot be edited here; if the object kept no picture, its place stays empty, and the note under the diagram says how many such objects there are.

Will non-Latin labels in an old .vsd file come out right — on screen and in the PDF?

Yes. Labels end up in the PDF as real, selectable and searchable text, not as an image. Old binary files that store text in a Windows code page — Cyrillic in Windows-1251, for example — are decoded with the same code page Visio uses. The PDF embeds a subset of a font that covers the script, so letterforms can differ from the original font.

Are the macros in a .vsdm file run?

No. A .vsdm is a Visio drawing with VBA macros; only the diagram is read and shown here, the macros stay untouched inside the file and are never executed.

Visio File Viewer (VSD, VSDX) Online

Visio files are a closed Microsoft format, and without Visio a .vsd or .vsdx usually opens nowhere: Windows shows only an icon, and Microsoft’s own Visio Viewer only ever worked inside Internet Explorer. Inside this page runs libvisio, the import library LibreOffice Draw relies on for Visio diagrams, built for WebAssembly. It handles all three generations of the format: binary .vsd from Visio 2000 – 2019 (and older Visio 1 – 5 files), .vdx XML drawings from Visio 2003 – 2010, and .vsdx packages from Visio 2013 and later. Pictures pasted into the diagram as Windows metafiles (clip art, network equipment icons) and embedded Excel tables are drawn too, and the preview Visio saved into the file is shown next to the diagram for comparison.

How to use it

3 steps

Pick a file

Drop a .vsd, .vsdx or .vdx diagram, a stencil or a template. The preview Visio saved appears right away.

Look through the pages

Switch pages with their tabs, zoom up to 400 %, find and copy the text.

Save

Export every page to one vector PDF, or the current page to SVG for further editing or to PNG.

View .vsd and .vsdx diagrams without Visio and export them to PDF, SVG or PNG

Drop a file here

Visio .vsd, .vsdx, .vsdm and .vdx drawings; .vss/.vssx stencils; .vst/.vstx templates ·

The diagram is read by libvisio (MPL-2.0).

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Published 12 Nov 2026 Updated 13 Nov 2026 Author: The Supreme

Visio File Viewer (VSD, VSDX) Online

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View .vsd and .vsdx diagrams without Visio and export them to PDF, SVG or PNG

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Visio File Viewer (VSD, VSDX) Online

How to use it

View .vsd and .vsdx diagrams without Visio and export them to PDF, SVG or PNG

Preview from the file

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