Saving Visio to BMP files 1

[ahenduck]

I need to save Visio pages as BMP files for use in a help authoring system. Visio insists on squeezing some of my text. I have re-typed the text, and moved it outside a rectangle shape. Visio still insists on doing things its own way. How can I get the best results from Visio, and use the BMP file format?

 

[writeup]

Save Visio graphic as bitmap. Open bitmap in say, MS Paint.<br>
Select the Visio text and delete it, or just draw a white space over the existing Visio text. Then click on the text tool, the icon for which is the capital letter A. Re-Type the text. To format the text style in MS Paint, select the text, then go to the tools menu and select the text toolbar.<br>
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A more robust graphics package, like Photoshop, will probably let you do this more easily than MS Paint, but Photoshop is more complicated and I think, a little intimidating. Paint is more like a plain-vanilla utility.<br>
Hope this helps.

 

[flyBabe]

When I try to save my Visio 2003 drawing as a gif, jpg, tif, or pretty much anything useful I get an error 920. This seems to be a known issue for MS but none of their fixes work (yes I have read the article addressing the issue).

Does anyone please, please, please, know a workaround?

I have tried installing Visio on a different machine, I have tried outputting it in Adobe Distiller, I have tried everything I can think of.

(My drawing is a 23' X 24' ER diagram if that makes a difference.)

Thanks so much.