No answer so I'm reposting (1 of 2): Some Visio drawings lose text when creating PDF from Word

[Mike Starr]

I have a number of Visio drawings that I've inserted into a Word document,
using Edit>>Copy Drawing in Visio then Paste Special (selecting Microsoft
Visio Drawing Object and Paste Link). When I compile a PDF using Adobe
Acrobat Professional 7, some of the Visio drawings lose their text (all of
it). The text is there in the Word document, just doesn't come through when
I create the PDF<arggh>

Anyone got any ideas or cures??

Thanks

Mike

 

[Paul Herber]

I have a number of Visio drawings that I've inserted into a Word document,
using Edit>>Copy Drawing in Visio then Paste Special (selecting Microsoft
Visio Drawing Object and Paste Link). When I compile a PDF using Adobe
Acrobat Professional 7, some of the Visio drawings lose their text (all of
it). The text is there in the Word document, just doesn't come through when
I create the PDF<arggh>

Anyone got any ideas or cures??

Mike, I think you're more likely to get a response by asking in an
Adobe Acrobat related newsgroup.
Have you tried one of the many other PDF writing tools, some of which
are free (or at least free trial).

Another thing to try. Rather than embed the Visio diagram within a
Word document, have the Visio document standalone, export the pages as
GIF or PNG files, then add these to the Word document.

 

[Mike Starr]

Paul...

Thanks for your reply. I'm not sure whether the problem is with Word, Visio
or Acrobat. Had to start someplace and since the problem only seems to occur
with Visio objects, but not all Visio objects, I thought I'd start here in
the Visio newsgroup. My thought process is that it's probably not Word,
since all of the text in my Visio drawings is visible just fine in the Word
document. I'm also thinking it probably isn't Acrobat because all of the
Visio objects are converted; my natural assumption is that all of the
objects are converted by the same process and if that process was flawed,
all of those images should manifest the same problem, but they don't. It
seems that it can't be Visio, either because the drawings were all created
at the same time... each one is a separate page in the same Visio document.
So we have a conundrum. Given that this newsgroup at least seems to be
visited occasionally by members of the Visio team, I figured maybe someone
on that team might have some insight into OLE linkage problems that are well
beyond my own scope.

My workaround is as you suggested... to export the Visio drawings to another
file format... that's what I've done. However, given that I'm working on a
rather extensive software manual, I try to link all of my images and
cross-references so I can modify them as necessary and they're automatically
updated in my manual. Saving the files as another file format breaks that
linkage and adds several steps every time I need to modify one of the
drawings.

Mike

 

[dMn]

I have a number of Visio drawings that I've inserted into a Word document,
using Edit>>Copy Drawing in Visio then Paste Special (selecting Microsoft
Visio Drawing Object and Paste Link). When I compile a PDF using Adobe
Acrobat Professional 7, some of the Visio drawings lose their text (all of
it). The text is there in the Word document, just doesn't come through when
I create the PDF<arggh>

Anyone got any ideas or cures??

Thanks

Mike

The problem you describe was a known issue with Acrobat 6.x but was
supposedly fixed in 7.0. I would look closer at the Acrobat as the
source of the problem.

dMn

 

[Mike Starr]

Well I've got Acrobat 7.08 but I'll look into it on the Acrobat forums.
Thanks for the pointer.

Mike