What are you using to generate PDFs? Are you using the PDF exporter that Microsoft does which has to be downloaded separately or a third party one? When you generate a PDF, do you do it through Save As, Export As or Print?
I usually use Save As and do it with the Microsoft one, despite that it's quirky. Files I do with it don't work 100% right in Preview. You can't go forward and backwards using either the visual list of pages or the page back/forward buttons at the top (can't remember off the top of my head which one it is). I know I tried changing some settings, but it didn't make any difference. I suspect it's something like Microsoft hasn't implemented the standard 100% correctly, or else Preview doesn't interpret it 100% correctly. I've also used one of the free third-party ones, but it didn't preserve transparancies correctly. If you're saving things to PDF in order to have a vector illustration that you can put into InDesign, you do need to make sure you're only saving a one-page document. So if you've created things as multiple pages in Visio, just copy and paste it into a new document and save that one out. Hope that helps. If my suggestions don't work, let me know off-list and I can tell you the exact settings I have on my computer at work. Renée On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Jonathan Cohen <[email protected]>wrote: > @druid %u2013 thanks, have you tried exporting your doc as a visio xml > drawing? > > @maurice, @david %u2013 no dice %u2013 visio doesn%u2019t like pdfs. > Tried all the format options and nothing worked. Thanks though. > > @stevenitz %u2013 can%u2019t use a mac at work. =( wish I could > though, apps like coda, textmate, cssedit really helped me up my > game. > > @david %u2013 yeah, diagramming for sure, no pixels allowed. > > @kim %u2013 yep, I%u2019d need to copy and paste each object/layer > separately. Obviously not going to scale. > > @todd %u2013 agreed > > @stephen %u2013 that would be great, but I%u2019m not allowed to use > my personal comp at work for anything. Looked into it already. =) > > @renee %u2013 all this pdf talk makes me wonder if one of my settings > is incorrect. I couldn%u2019t get a pdf created by one program to open > in the other. > > Visio gets the job done, but not without quirks. Alt Shift F6 to > zoom? I can work around its refusal to allow pixels as a metric with > stencils, but Visio forces me to think about regions in inches or > points, which obviously isn%u2019t a digital display language. I > built a persona template yesterday with a ton of guides and when it > came time to make an attributes tab, couldn%u2019t duplicate the > layout. Each guide needed to be manually selected, copied and pasted, > and then moved to its appropriate spot since Visio flung them into a > random place. =) Also, no one wants to navigate through a large > wireframe deck with tabs. Haven%u2019t made a wireframe yet, but I > suspect I%u2019ll miss layers quite a bit. > > Anyway, it%u2019s always good to focus on what makes something > usable. Thanks for the responses all! > > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44568 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- Renée Rosen-Wakeford [email protected] Twitter: @lilitu93 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
