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More PDF Conversion -- Embedded Visio on Word vs Embedded Word Draw in Word

TS Moderator

2006-09-24, 7:00 pm

Ok, in my quest to get beautiful totally scaleable non-jaggy geometric
drawings in PDF format from word documents, I finally gave up on
embedding Viso in Word, and simply used Word Draw. This is unfortunate
because Visio is such a powerful flexible tool for doing geometric
drawings, but I wanted super clean looking drawings.

Here is one of my old PDF's -- converted from Visio embedded in Word
http://www.weekendsuccess.com/Docs/...yReview2OLD.pdf

Here is one of my new PDF's -- converted from Word Draw embedded in
Word
http://www.weekendsuccess.com/Docs/GeometryReview2.pdf

I contacted a number of vendors of PDF conversion software, but none of
them really could give me a definitive answer as to how to get their
conversion software to treat embedded visio objects as scaleable
graphics and text.

I really did not want to become the worlds expert on Conversion from
Word with Embedded Visio. I just wanted to use a couple of commercial
packages to do some nice looking diagrams. I did experiment a little
with embedded auto cad, and that seemed to scale beautifully too. I
think it would be nice to know where the source of the conversion
problem is, but I don't want to spend a bunch of time becoming an
expert on the technical details of the PDF conversion process.

TS Moderator

2006-09-24, 7:00 pm

TS Moderator wrote:
> Ok, in my quest to get beautiful totally scaleable non-jaggy geometric
> drawings in PDF format from word documents, I finally gave up on
> embedding Viso in Word, and simply used Word Draw. This is unfortunate
> because Visio is such a powerful flexible tool for doing geometric
> drawings, but I wanted super clean looking drawings.
>
> Here is one of my old PDF's -- converted from Visio embedded in Word
> http://www.weekendsuccess.com/Docs/...yReview2OLD.pdf
>
> Here is one of my new PDF's -- converted from Word Draw embedded in
> Word
> http://www.weekendsuccess.com/Docs/GeometryReview2.pdf
>
> I contacted a number of vendors of PDF conversion software, but none of
> them really could give me a definitive answer as to how to get their
> conversion software to treat embedded visio objects as scaleable
> graphics and text.
>
> I really did not want to become the worlds expert on Conversion from
> Word with Embedded Visio. I just wanted to use a couple of commercial
> packages to do some nice looking diagrams. I did experiment a little
> with embedded auto cad, and that seemed to scale beautifully too. I
> think it would be nice to know where the source of the conversion
> problem is, but I don't want to spend a bunch of time becoming an
> expert on the technical details of the PDF conversion process.

Sorry, I should have pointed out -- the problem with embedded visio is
that the PDF conversion process (i tried a number of different vendor
packages) seems to convert it to bit mapped format.

TS Moderator

2006-09-24, 7:00 pm

Scott Bryce wrote:
> TS Moderator wrote:
>
>
>
> I think you may see that happen most of the time anyway. I don't know
> how a PDF conversion program is supposed to know enough about the file
> format you use for images to know how to re-create your images using PDF
> line drawing commands. On the other hand, embedding pixel data in a PDF
> is pretty straight forward.

I guess, but embedded Auto Cad didn't seem to have the same problems.
Bottom line is I don't know how the various companies in the
graphics/embedded graphics/document conversion arena have worked this
out. I don't want to know the grimey technical details, but I'd like
to know what they consider to be reasonable and possible.