Visio diagrams in Word

[Perryy]

I'm doing a book in Word and need to include a large number of fairly simple
Visio diagrams. I expected to see a "Insert Visio Drawing" button appear in
Word when I installed Visio 7, but that did not happen and I can't find out
how to create one. From what I've read here, the usual method of putting
Visio diagrams in Word is to copy and paste. So, I'm thinking that I will
have a separate Visio file with all my diagrams and I will create in that
file and individually copy and paste into the Word file.
Also, I will at the end be putting the book into a PDF, so I'd appreciate
being forewarned of any problems I might encounter with that, relative to
embedded Visio material.

 

[John... Visio MVP]

I'm doing a book in Word and need to include a large number of fairly
simple
Visio diagrams. I expected to see a "Insert Visio Drawing" button appear
in
Word when I installed Visio 7, but that did not happen and I can't find
out
how to create one. From what I've read here, the usual method of putting
Visio diagrams in Word is to copy and paste. So, I'm thinking that I will
have a separate Visio file with all my diagrams and I will create in that
file and individually copy and paste into the Word file.
Also, I will at the end be putting the book into a PDF, so I'd appreciate
being forewarned of any problems I might encounter with that, relative to
embedded Visio material.

Do you really want to embed Visio drawings in Word? That would result in
quite a bit of blot.

If the Visio drawings are relatively stable, I would save the drawings in a
directory as jpgs (or one of the other file formats) and link the Word
document to the files in the directory.

There should be no problems with saving the Word document as a PDF file.

John... Visio MVP

 

[Paul Herber]

Do you really want to embed Visio drawings in Word? That would result in
quite a bit of blot.

If the Visio drawings are relatively stable, I would save the drawings in a
directory as jpgs (or one of the other file formats)

Apologiers for butting in here, John, but not jpg, never jpg for this
type of image. Jpg is fine for photographs. Use a gif or png but a wmf
or emf may be even better.

 

[John... Visio MVP]

Apologiers for butting in here, John, but not jpg, never jpg for this
type of image. Jpg is fine for photographs. Use a gif or png but a wmf
or emf may be even better.

Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. http://www.sandrila.co.uk/

Thanks Paul. That was why I said "(or one of the other file formats)". I
knew someone would step up and mention a better format.

John... Visio MVP

 

[WapperDude]

May I join in this fun? The main gotcha for doing PDFs involving Visio are
gradient and transparent fills. But as John, Paul ...hmmm...who were those
other guys... uh, anyway, if you save the Visio drawings as some graphic
file, should be just fine.