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Imported Visio Diagrams in FrameMaker are Distorted
Subject:Imported Visio Diagrams in FrameMaker are Distorted From:ljp1963 -at- aol -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:30:30 -0700
In a message dated 11/9/2003 1:52:40 AM Eastern Standard Time,
techwr-nnagoda -at- innovativesystems -dot- com writes:
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I am using:
FrameMaker 6.0
Visio 2000
Windows 2000
I am working in a manual that contains about 250 Visio diagrams. Some
of the diagrams are distorted (like the circles are not perfect...and
the lines look like squiggly lines) both in the fm file and after
making the file into a pdf.
I have tried saving the Visio diagram into a different format like
.wmf .jpg and .eps..but no luck.
Does anyone have a solution?
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I have similar problems importing VISIO database schema diagrams into my
FrameMaker files. I have the same versions of VISIO and FrameMaker (though
I was using Windows NT 4.0 and now Windows XP). The best solution I found
(odd though it may seem) was to save the VISIO diagrams as Macintosh PICT
Format (*.pct) and then import them into FrameMaker. This was the only way
I could get the diagrams to import with distortion.
Hope this helps,
Lou Prosperi
Product Specialist and Technical Writer
LODESTAR Corporation
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