No answer so I'm reposting (2 of 2): Export to .gif... suppress anti-aliasing?

[Mike Starr]

I'm having trouble with text disappearing from Visio objects inserted into
Word (see thread "Some Visio drawings lose text when creating PDF from Word)
so I decided that even though I'd rather use an embedded Visio object I'd
export the drawings from Viso to .GIF. Okay. Then I open one of the exported
..GIF files and what the hell happened?? Visio did anti-aliasing on my nice
clean colors. <arggh>

Okay, I'll go into the configuration and turn it off.

<arggh>... it's not there.

Okay, I'll look it up in the help...

<arggh>... it's not there.

Okay, I'll look it up in the Microsoft knowledge base.

<arggh>... it's not there.

So apparently the concept of anti-aliasing is so obvious and desirable that
somebody didn't even think that some moron (me) might not want it??

 

[Paul Herber]

I'm having trouble with text disappearing from Visio objects inserted into
Word (see thread "Some Visio drawings lose text when creating PDF from Word)
so I decided that even though I'd rather use an embedded Visio object I'd
export the drawings from Viso to .GIF. Okay. Then I open one of the exported
.GIF files and what the hell happened?? Visio did anti-aliasing on my nice
clean colors. <arggh>

Okay, I'll go into the configuration and turn it off.

<arggh>... it's not there.

Okay, I'll look it up in the help...

<arggh>... it's not there.

Okay, I'll look it up in the Microsoft knowledge base.

<arggh>... it's not there.

So apparently the concept of anti-aliasing is so obvious and desirable that
somebody didn't even think that some moron (me) might not want it??

A limitation of the 256 colour pallette in the GIF format, try PNG or
TIFF format.

 

[Mike Starr]

Thanks for your response but unfortunately that's not the problem. Even
though I didn't believe what you told me, I exported one of my illustrations
as .TIF with data compression set to none, color format set to 24-bit color,
resolution set to printer (600x600) and size set to Source. The result in
the .TIF format was the same as the result in the .GIF format... Visio's
export of the image was anti-aliased. My original Visio drawing used five
colors; the exported file contains 214 colors. When I export a five-color
drawing, I want a file with five colors, not 214.

Mike

 

[Paul Herber]

Thanks for your response but unfortunately that's not the problem. Even
though I didn't believe what you told me, I exported one of my illustrations
as .TIF with data compression set to none, color format set to 24-bit color,
resolution set to printer (600x600) and size set to Source. The result in
the .TIF format was the same as the result in the .GIF format... Visio's
export of the image was anti-aliased. My original Visio drawing used five
colors; the exported file contains 214 colors. When I export a five-color
drawing, I want a file with five colors, not 214.

Try setting the resolution to Source.

 

[Mike Starr]

Paul...

I tried the following settings, again with no joy. The resulting image is
still anti-aliased.

..TIF with data compression set to none, color format set to 24-bit color,
resolution set to Source and size set to Source.

Mike

 

[Mike Starr]

You apparently missed the other thread (1 of 2)... that was what I had done
but some of the visio drawings lost their text when I used Acrobat to create
a PDF.

Mike

 

[Paul Herber]

Mike, would you like to send me your vsd file and output tif ?

Paul...

I tried the following settings, again with no joy. The resulting image is
still anti-aliased.

.TIF with data compression set to none, color format set to 24-bit color,
resolution set to Source and size set to Source.

Mike

 

[Mike Starr]

Sure... I'll be sending it from my work email address but with this subject
line.

Mike

Mike, would you like to send me your vsd file and output tif ?

 

[Paul Herber]

Ok, Mike, this is what I've found. The tif image is about the best you
can get as far as that image type is conxcerned. However, I now know
what you mean by the colour problem and it isn't anti-aliasing as far
as I know but it does produce a fuzzy effect at edges and lines.
But there is a way around this problem - save the diagram as an WMF or
EMF image type. Edges and lines will maintain their sharpness with
these image types..

Sure... I'll be sending it from my work email address but with this subject
line.

Mike