jim said:
When I try to print my Visio files to a printer or adobe acrobat, certain
letters are cut in half in my charts. I have tried printing as a file and
running the .ps file through distiller, but I still have the same problem.
Any help is appreciated.
From what little MS folks have revealed, Visio and Word use two
different rendering technologies for graphics, and are essential
incompatible with each other on two basic fronts: (a) importing, or
copy/paste of graphics (which then are printed to, say, an acrobat
printer); and (b) the utilization of fonts (you will notice that Visio
does not use opentype fonts they way the other MS products use opentype
fonts (opentype fonts were co-developed by MS). Basically, very bad
programming (my inside source says that the Visio development budget was
cut in 2002 by over 30%). These are the results. Shame.
Workaround 1.
You will notice that the fonts become clipped when the graphic you are
pasting from Visio into Word is in any way resized by Word. To prevent
the clipping, you will have to paste as a basic picture file (metafile).
Workaround 2.
If you need to rotate your Visio graphics within Word, then first rotate
the image in Visio, then paste into Visio.
Workaround 3.
Visio has a known bug in how it handles bullets and fonts in general.
Make sure that if you bold or italicize any text in Visio, then you MUST
have the separate 'bold' and 'italic' and 'bold italic' variations of
the font installed. I have created separate 'Arrows-Bullets' (with
italic and bold variations) TTF fonts (you'll need a separate font
creation program such as FontLab, etc.).
Workaround 4.
In the Adobe PDF printer settings (advanced) set the following:
a. Print quality: 600 dpi
b. TrueType Font: Download as Softfont
c. TrueType Font Download Option: Native TrueType
Workaround 5.
Give-up on Visio (has MS?) and switch to SmartDraw.
