Thanks to everyone who responded to my question. Sorry about the delay in MY response since I posted the question. Been away from work. I appreciated all the tips I got. For this situation, I ended up importing the Visio drawings as PDFs and it worked great! Thanks again, Barbara Zeller
-----Original Message----- From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.co...@polycom.com] Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 1:06 PM To: Zeller, Barbara; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: vsd flow charts Zeller, Barbara asked: > What is the best way to import flow charts from Visio (.vsd) into > FrameMaker? > I'm getting some pretty fuzzy results. I am working in Frame 7.2. Would > appreciate any tips. If the results are fuzzy, I'm guessing you're exporting to JPEG, probably the worst choice (it's for photos, not drawings). But any raster (bitmap) image format is a bad idea. And Visio's export filters (including those suitable for vector graphics -- EPS and WMF/EMF) have a poor reputation. IMHO, PDF is by far the best option. If you have a recent full version of Acrobat, and it was installed after Office/Visio, it should have installed the PDFMaker plug-in, adding PDF buttons and menu to your Office apps, including Visio. That makes it dead simple; once you set PDF options once, it will take just a button click to create a new PDF when you change the drawing. If that's not your situation, but you have Distiller, you can print your Visio drawings to the Adobe PDF printer. In either case, if your Visio files contain multiple drawings, the PDF will contain multiple pages. In FM, when you select a multi-page PDF to import, a dialog appears in which you choose the page you want (there's a preview if you've forgotten the page number). Helpful hint: When you create Visio drawings for import into FM, figure out what size you want them to be on the FM page, and make the drawing page that size (e.g., if you want them to span a 6" text column, then in Visio, use a custom page 6" wide). It will simplify your life if your drawings don't need to be scaled on import. HTH! 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 arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.