How to make Visio discard cropped data

[LurfysMa]

The Visio Crop tool appears to be more of a Mask tool. It does not
really crop anything.

I loaded a large bitmap file into Visio and cropped it down to a small
portion in the middle. When I saved and closed the file, I was
surprised that the file size did not shrink. When I reopened it, I
discovered that I could uncrop the image.

Is there some way I can tell Visio to discard the cropped material?

I need to extract some small segments from some large graphics files.
I don't want to store all that extra junk.

Thanks

 

[David Parker [Visio MVP]]

You need to use a raster graphics application to do this first, such as
Paint.

 

[Jeff Chapman]

Either that, or you could cut the image (CTRL+X),
do an Edit | Paste Special, and repaste the image in
Device Independent Bitmap format. This would ensure that
the image is completely cropped and that the "masked"
data no longer remains.

Hope this helps!

- Jeff Chapman

You need to use a raster graphics application to do this first, such as
Paint.