title: Automated method to export Enterprise Architect diagrams?
body: <p>Problem: A lot of our design and architecture documentation were created and maintained in <a href="http://www.sparxsystems.com/" rel="noreferrer">Enterprise Architect</a> - for better or worse, that is how it is. These documents are stored in our subversion repository - which works out pretty well for the folks that create and update them - since we have licenses for EA - but many of the developers (both internal and external) who work on our codebase and need to make use of the diagrams but dont all have EA licenses. </p>
  
  <p>Poor Solution: We could manually export the EA documents to a portable format and then check those in, but there are bound to be times when the portable format version is out of date with the EA document since it relies on the human to take the steps to manually convert.</p>
  
  <p>Better Solution: We have been looking for a method to automate the conversion. This could be run as a post-commit hook or as part of our continuous integration system. The part we are missing is the piece that allows us to automate the conversion. Any ideas?</p>