Convert Visio drawing to a layered pdf

[Carlos Salvador]

Hello,

I am trying to create a pdf from a visio 2003 drawing.

I need to preserve the layers and the macros from the Visio file. So the per

I have already installed Acrobat 7.0 Standard

 

[Al Edlund]

Consider the question:
"How would adobe execute a macro based upon a microsoft API call?"
al

 

[John Goldsmith]

Hello Carlos,

Do you really mean macros (ie code)? If you do then Al is quite right, you
can't save them in a pdf.

If you're just looking for layered output, you might find these two links
useful:

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat/articles/acr7at_visiopdf.html

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat/articles/acr7layer.html

Bear in mind that Visio layers don't work in quite the same way Adobe based
layers do. For example, a Visio shape can be assigned to multiple layers.

Just incase you're looking for other distribution formats you might also
want to consider Save As Web Page functionality (found under the File menu)
and the Visio Viewer:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio/HP012315221033.aspx (info)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...42-B174-4198-AE31-6884E9EDD524&displaylang=en
(download)

Let us know if you had different ideas for the macros.

Best regards

John


John Goldsmith
www.visualSignals.typepad.co.uk
www.visualSignals.co.uk

 

[Carlos Salvador]

Thanks for the advises.

You are right. And considering that the shapes would need to belong to more
than one layer. a layered PDF will not cover the need that I have.

The objective of this is to allow persons to see a Visio drawing . They have
the Visio viewer 2003 and I have done some tests but the problem is the
following:

Each form shape has an hyperlink to an internet address
Each shape also by double cliking, runs a macro that will make an specific
layer visible
Even when the layers are available, the macros are not working any more.

Do you know a way such that ussing the Visio Viewer by double clicking a
shape the ussers will be able to run the macros allready recorded in Visio?

Thanks a lot

 

[David Parker]

Carlos,

The macros reside in the Visio file, and require Visio to run them -
security settings permitting.
Since the Visio Viewer is not Visio, then running macros is not possible,
and not desirable since macros can carry viruses.

You could code web pages that host the Visio Viewer and get, say, JavaScript
functions to work with the selected shape.