<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Hi everybody,</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">First of all, thank you for your great answers! Much appreciated!</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I know that embedding Visio drawings in FrameMaker is not the optimal way of working (although, very convenient), but it's currently not feasible for us to start "externalizing" the diagrams in books containing thousands of pa<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>ges. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Thanks again,</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr readonly="true" contenteditable="false"></DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Robert Lauriston <robert@lauriston.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Roman Banks <banks_roman@yahoo.com>; framers@lists.frameusers.com <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Monday, June 3, 2013 10:51 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: FM and Distiller distort Visio drawing<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=y_msg_container><BR>I don't know about transparency, but this is what works well for me:<BR><BR>In Visio, use File > Page Setup > Page Size > "Size to fit drawing<BR>contents" to eliminate unused space around the drawing, then File ><BR>Save As > Enhanced Metafile (*.emf).<BR><BR>In FrameMaker, import the .emf file by reference.<BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>