Does FM crash on Large files on a regular basis?

[Combs, Richard]

Sent too soon. I also meant to recommend an alternative workflow for
Orly. Instead of importing native Visio files as OLE objects (either
linked or embedded), print the Visio files to PDF and import that into
FM. 

I think that's a better solution than Art's suggestion of exporting to a
graphics format -- Visio's export filters don't have a very good
reputation, but it can certainly print to your Adobe PDF printer.
Actually, if you have a recent version of Acrobat, and it was installed
after Visio, you'll have Adobe's "make PDF" plugin in Visio.

Importing PDF into FM works beautifully. You can probably even get away
with embedding the PDFs instead of importing by reference -- the file
size will probably be much, much smaller and imported PDF is light-years
more stable than OLE objects. 

Whatever you choose to do, scrapping OLE will be a big improvement.  

HTH!
Richard


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
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