Re: PDF not capturing text in Visio diagram

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Hi, Greg:
You might check to see how Acrobat is processing fonts. If the font settings
are set to replace with Acrobat fonts, that could be your problem. Set the
fonts to "download as soft font" and see if that makes a difference. Using a
"standard" font like Arial in the Visio diagram could also help.

Otherwise, exporting the Visio diagram as a graphic (.png or .jpg) is a good
solution, as others mentioned. It will also be smaller if it is a png. Just
make sure you set the resolution high enough to be good for a print copy.
Hope this helps,
PT

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Greg Brown <greg -dot- brown -at- pronto -dot- com -dot- au>wrote:

> In several of our manuals (authored in Word) there is a Visio diagram
> included in the introductory section. This diagram will typically be a
> fairly simple flow chart including arrows, text and shapes. The flow
> chart is used to indicate the series of steps included in the manual.
> However, almost all of the time that I create a PDF from the Word
> document, the Visio diagram is included in the PDF without any of the
> text. It is definitely there in the diagram and shows in the Word
> document, but is nearly always missing from the PDF.
> I have tried a few things like sending the text to front etc but doesn't
> seem to fix the problem.
>
> Has anyone seen this and know what the problem is?
>
> Tools used:
>
> Adobe Acrobat Standard 7 (Version 7.1.1)
> Word 2002 SP3
> Windows XP SP2
> Visio 2003
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Greg
>
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