Steve Rickaby wrote: > FWIW, I had have painful experience of the 'quality' (I use > the term loosely) of exports from Visio in non-M$ formats > (i.e. anything portable). My preferred method would now be to > create a PDF from Visio and import that into FrameMaker. But > then, I work on a Mac...
Yeah, Visio's export filters -- especially EPS -- have sucked for a long time. I use PDF for practically all my Visio drawings. For one thing, I create multiple related drawings, such as call flow diagrams, in a single multi-page Visio file. I can print that to a multi-page PDF with a custom page size, and then import each page of the PDF (at 100%) into my FM doc. Print a new PDF from Visio, and all the diagrams in FM are updated. Sweet. :-) As an alternative, Visio's PNG export seems to be pretty decent (at least in Visio 2003). Also, I've played a little with Visio's Save As Web Page command, choosing VML as the graphics format, and that looks pretty slick. My multi-page drawings ended up as a set of VML (vector markup language) files with an HTML frameset wrapper that provided navigation, pan and zoom, search, etc. There are lots of options for Save As Web Page -- for vector output, SVG is another option. If you're on Windows (sorry, Steve <g>) and want to put Visio drawings on line, it's worth looking into. Richard ------ Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 ------ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
