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Re: Imported Visio Diagrams in FrameMaker are Distorted
Subject:Re: Imported Visio Diagrams in FrameMaker are Distorted From:"Richard G. Combs" <richard -dot- combs -at- voyanttech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:29:53 -0700
Dick Margulis wrote:
> Is there an Export menu item, rather than Save As?
>
> If not, can you print to Distiller? If so, click the Properties button on
the Print dialog, go to the Advanced tab, and ensure that you are
downloading font outlines to the "printer." Illustrator can open the PDF
directly.
>From Visio, printing to Distiller is the way to go (assuming you want to
avoid both OLE and conversion to bitmaps). On the Frameusers list, Dov
Isaacs of Adobe has commented more than once that Visio's EPS output is
really, really bad.
Visio _does_ do a pretty good job of exporting to PNG, which is a vector
format (select Save As HTML, and then select the PNG graphics option).
Unfortunately, FrameMaker currently doesn't handle PNG graphics properly,
converting them to bitmaps on import. Rumor has it that the next version of
FM (7.1?) may fix this.
HTH!
Richard
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