Guy, I know that folks will likely tell you that it's not the recommended way, but I have embedded Visio objects into a couple of FM books successfully. I learned about it from another list member (John, are you out there?), and it has been fine.
Other than that, the recommended procedure is clumsy at best: create a PDF from Visio, crop it, save as .eps, import into FM (think I'm remembering that right). Ugly if you expect change to the Visio drawings as I did. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC Intelligent technical communication since 1993 Technical writing, help development, FrameMaker and WebWorks Publisher conversions [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.techcomplus.com/ 303-450-9076 800-500-3144 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Manager, Consulting and Independent Contracting Special Interest Group Society for Technical Communication http://www.stcsig.org/cic/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Guy K. Haas Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 9:32 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Visio (2003) drawings into FrameMaker (7.2, unstructured)? My developers give me design files in Word containing embedded Visio objects to show UML and the like. While there are not very many, I WOULD like to use as delayed a binding as possible, to facilitate the updating of such drawings from (ever?)-changing engineering docs. I do not believe one can embed such objects themselves in a FrameMaker document. I CAN, of course, open the object, save it as a .vsd file, then open the vsd file IN Visio and save it in some other graphic form (meaning that I'd have to do it over again whenever the engineers rejigger). But Visio 2003 does not offer .eps among its save-as options. The most desirable of the offerings (for line drawings) seem to be .gif, .png, and .svg[z]. My guess would be .svg because it's vector. Any guidance on 1. whether FrameMaker can embed Visio objects 2. if not, then what's the best format for embedding the graphic file. --TIA, Guy K. Haas Software Exegete in Silicon Valley _______________________________________________ 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/lindag%40techcomplus.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ 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.
