Open SDA files in your browser
StarOffice's drawing, before OpenOffice.org. Open one right here, every page, sharp at any zoom. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your drawing opens at its first page, its pages in a rail beside it.
- Every page • Shapes, lines and text
- Sharp at any zoom • Drawn, not pictured
- Search • Every match counted and marked
- Export • Save as PDF, PNG or JPEG
About SDA
StarDraw was the drawing app of StarOffice, Star Division's office suite, for diagrams, flyers and drawings, and saved .sda files through StarOffice 5.2 in 2000. It became OpenOffice.org Draw and then LibreOffice Draw, which save OpenDocument drawings.
An SDA is a Compound File holding StarDraw's own records: each page's shapes, lines, text and pictures, with their fills and styles. Its sister StarImpress saved presentations as .sdd in the same way.
Filepeek reads the drawing with libstaroffice, the open source reader LibreOffice uses, compiled to WebAssembly, and draws every page with its shapes, text and pictures, sharp at any zoom, its pages in a rail beside them. Search finds any word, and Export saves the pages as a PDF or as pictures.
StarDraw drawing
.sda
Format
- MIME type
- application/vnd.stardivision.draw
- Made by
- Star Division, then Sun Microsystems
Inside the file
- Pages
- Shapes, lines, text and pictures
- Look
- Fills, lines and styles
- Inside
- A Compound File of StarDraw's records
- Written by
- StarOffice 3 to 5.2
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens SDA files in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers only download them.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open SDA
- WindowsLibreOffice Draw opens it
- MacLibreOffice Draw opens it
- iPhone and iPadNo app built in opens it
- AndroidNo app built in opens it
Questions
How do I open an SDA file?
Drop it on this page or choose Peek an SDA. It opens at its first page, with every page in a rail beside it.
Can I save it as a PDF?
Yes. Choose Export, then Save as PDF, and every page goes on a page of its own. Save as PNG or JPEG saves pages as pictures.