Huntley Eshenroder wrote: > Generating a good PDF from Visio is tricky. Dov provided the > magic recipe sometime back. It should be in the archives. If > my memory is correct (ha!), you need to do the following:
I recall some discussion of Visio's unreliable EPS output -- maybe that's what you're thinking of. In any case, I have Acro Pro 7 and Visio 2003, and have never had any issues. Acro installed its plugins/macros into Visio, just like it does for Word and Excel. Once Distiller was set up right (correct custom page size, .joboptions, etc.), I could produce perfect PDFs by clicking a button. I have several multi-page Visio files (related flow charts) that I output as PDFs. I then import them (by reference) page by page into FM. The Visios PDFs are 6.5"x8.5", so they fit into my FM pages without resizing. When I modify a flow chart in Visio, I just click the Create PDF button and confirm overwriting the existing PDF. The FM files update automatically. The process works just fine, with one minor disappointment: Hyperlinks in the Visio drawings are "live" in the PDFs produced from Visio, but they don't survive the import into FM. YMMV, of course. :-) Richard ------ Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 ------