I have had good success saving the viso as .svg. The result converts to pdf and 
you can scale inside the anchored frame.

HTH!

Cathy Arthur
Technical Writer, Lawful Access 
Research In Motion Limited 








-----Original Message-----
From: Combs, Richard [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 4:29 PM
To: jburgdor; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Conversion of .vsd to .png

Jburgdor wrote:

> Does anyone know of an automated method for doing drawing conversions
> from .vsd to .png?

I suggest not doing that. Visio files are scalable vector graphics. PNG files 
are bitmap (raster) images, which exhibit all the limitations of bitmaps -- 
jaggies, poor quality when zoomed/scaled, etc. 

A much better option is converting them to PDF, which is also a scalable vector 
format. That's especially true if your intended destination is an FM document 
(which I'm assuming is the case since you posted to this list). 

I haven't used any third-party converters myself, since I have both Visio and 
Acrobat Pro, so I can't recommend one and don't know how or if they handle 
multi-page Visio files. When I use the Acrobat plug-in to save a multi-page 
Visio file as PDF, I get a multi-page PDF. When I import that by reference into 
FM, I'm prompted to select which page of the PDF to import. Very cool, very 
slick, totally bulletproof. 

In Google, search for "batch convert visio files" (sans quotes) for a number of 
options (try some variations of that search string too). You'll see that most 
are for converting to PDF (because that's the best choice for most purposes). 
But there are some options for other destination formats (PNG, JPEG, etc.) if 
you must. 

HTH!

Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-903-6372
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