Some Visio drawings lose text when creating PDF from Word

[Mike Starr]

Windows 2000
Word 2002 SP3
Visio 2003 SP1
Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.08

I've already struck out in the Visio newsgroup... I'll be posting this in
the Acrobat forum as well.

I have a number of Visio drawings that I've inserted into a Word document,
using Edit>>Copy Drawing in Visio then in Word using Edit>>Paste Special
(selecting Microsoft Visio Drawing Object and Paste Link). When I compile a
PDF using Adobe Acrobat Professional 7, some of the Visio drawings lose
their text (all of it). The text is there in the Word document, just doesn't
come through when I create the PDF<arggh>

Anyone got any ideas or cures??

It was suggested that I convert the Visio drawings to another file format...
I've already done that as a workaround but doing it that way I lose the
linkage and have to repeat the conversion if I need to modify the drawing.
I'd much rather have the image in my Word document be a direct link to the
Visio file so that it's automatically updated when modified.

Thanks

Mike

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Mike,

There can be a couple of issues with this, but see if the information in this article helps:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892955/en-us?FR=1

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Windows 2000
Word 2002 SP3
Visio 2003 SP1
Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.08

I've already struck out in the Visio newsgroup... I'll be posting this in
the Acrobat forum as well.

I have a number of Visio drawings that I've inserted into a Word document,
using Edit>>Copy Drawing in Visio then in Word using Edit>>Paste Special
(selecting Microsoft Visio Drawing Object and Paste Link). When I compile a
PDF using Adobe Acrobat Professional 7, some of the Visio drawings lose
their text (all of it). The text is there in the Word document, just doesn't
come through when I create the PDF<arggh>

Anyone got any ideas or cures??

It was suggested that I convert the Visio drawings to another file format...
I've already done that as a workaround but doing it that way I lose the
linkage and have to repeat the conversion if I need to modify the drawing.
I'd much rather have the image in my Word document be a direct link to the
Visio file so that it's automatically updated when modified.

Thanks

Mike>>

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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Mike Starr]

Thanks for the reply, Bob.

I have resolution set to 300 dpi, so nothing I could do there to resolve my
problem <sigh>

Mike

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Mike,

The workaround in that article was to set the DPi to 600. Do you get the same results if you change to 600?

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Thanks for the reply, Bob.

I have resolution set to 300 dpi, so nothing I could do there to resolve my
problem <sigh>

Mike >>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Mike Starr]

From the article...

"This issue may occur if the Print Quality option in Adobe Acrobat is set to
a setting that is higher than 600 dots per inch (dpi)."

Since my setting was already lower than 600, the article would not apply, so
no, I didn't change my setting to 600 dpi.

Mike

Hi Mike,

The workaround in that article was to set the DPi to 600. Do you get the

same results if you change to 600?

 

[Mike Starr]

So I take that since I didn't ignore one part of the article cited and
follow another part of the article I'm not worthy of any additional
response?

Mike