VISIO, WMF, and PNG

[Dov Isaacs]

WMF is a vector format based on Windows GDI. That's why it looks smooth and
is certainly preferable to PNG which is raster and for print purposes, unless
you go to 600dpi or more for Visio vector style drawing, PNG will look cruddy!

Be careful with WMF, though! Sometimes text doesn't make it "through" WMF
successfully and Visio's WMF export is not stellar by any means.

	- Dov

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 9:09 AM
> 
> Several of the documents I work on use Visio drawings. I save the Visio
> drawings as PNGs and then import the PNGs into FrameMaker. When I print the
> frame book as a PDF, the PNG looks horribly pixellated.
> 
> On the other hand, when I save the Visio drawing as a WMF and use that WMF
> in FrameMaker, there is almost no pixellation when I print to PDF.
> 
> I am not sure what the problem is here. I would much rather use PNGs, but
> not if they are so pixellated they are almost impossible to view in a PDF.
> Is it how Visio saves PNGs, or  my settings (e.g. screen res, settings in
> viso for saving the graphic), or how FrameMaker is processing the PNG when
> printing to PDF?
> 
> If there is anyone who successfully exports Visio drawings to PNG and then
> imports them into FrameMaker, what settings do you use for your computer, in
> Visio, and in Frame?
> 
> --
> Sincerely,
> 
> Joseph Lorenzini