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If you save as a bitmap format such as PNG, you lose all the vector information.
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Monique Semp
<monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net> wrote:
> Hello, WR-L-ers,
>
> Googling shows that there are many paths to converting a Visio VSD file (yes, VSD, not VSDX, because Iâm still using my old Visio 2007) to EPS, which I want to do to get images into a PDF thatâs produced by Doxygen-generated LaTeX output that I input to TeXworks.
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> Iâm assuming that with so many methods to do this, the results will range from excellent to poor, in terms of good quality/hi-res images. (Using Illustrator to convert from the Visio-output PNG file to an EPS file results in rather blurry images. There are many options in Illustrator, so perhaps itâs fixable. But Iâd assume that itâs better
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> So, is anyone already doing this VSD->EPS conversion with good results? If so, please share your method.
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> Hoping to save some experimentation time,
> -Monique
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