Saved a file as JPEG, now I need to edit

[Claire]

Hi,

I hope you can get me out of a pickle and save me another 2 days work by
recreating the document.

I created and saved the viso file as a JPEG so my collegues can see it, I
now need to ammend the file.

Is there any way of either editing the JPEG or converting the file back from
JPEG to Visio..?

I so hope there is..

Regards
Claire

 

[Paul Herber]

Hi,

I hope you can get me out of a pickle and save me another 2 days work by
recreating the document.

I created and saved the viso file as a JPEG so my collegues can see it, I
now need to ammend the file.

Is there any way of either editing the JPEG or converting the file back from
JPEG to Visio..?

I so hope there is..

You're very unlikely to be able to recreate anything useful that Visio
can work with. Depending upon what the changes are you might be able
to do it with an image editor.
Files should always be saved in Visio .vsd format, outputting as any
other format can be done as well, but the .vsd format is vital.

Having the image and web page options available from the Save menu is
a big mistake IME, they are export formats, not save formats. the only
save formats are the native Visio file format and XML.
It's possible to create a new drawing, close Visio, you get asked to
save, you choose JPG format, save it and then Visio closes. Madness.

 

[WapperDude]

Don't you still have the original? By edit, you obviously mean add more
shapes to the jpeg, answer is no. Well, not directly. You might try using a
graphic art program to insert jpeg versions of your changes into the jpeg
drawing. Sounds like a lot of work though. To convert from jpeg back to
Visio format, no.

Sorry.
Wapperdude

 

[John... Visio MVP]

Hi,

I hope you can get me out of a pickle and save me another 2 days work by
recreating the document.

I created and saved the viso file as a JPEG so my collegues can see it, I
now need to ammend the file.

Is there any way of either editing the JPEG or converting the file back
from
JPEG to Visio..?

I so hope there is..

Regards
Claire

You said you did it over two days, so there is a chance that there is a copy
of the drawing. When you save as a JPG, it changes the file extension and
saves as a new file, so the original VSD extension file may exist. Of
course, if you did a lot of changes and then did the save as JPG, then all
those changes are gone.

As the others have pointed out, the JPG loses a lot of information that
Visio needs to use for editting. So hoefully you still have a VSD version of
the file you can work from.

John... Visio MVP