Visio 2003 Bug?

[Michael Byrnes]

I finally figured out that when copy-paste-link from Visio to Word, certain
fonts past well and other do not (particularly if one prints to Acrobat
PDF). The fonts that do print apparently must have corresponding BOLD,
ITALIC, BOLD ITALIC, fonts also installed. Unicode and Dingbat fonts are
not liked at all my Visio-Word-Acrobat. I've even tried to trick the three
programs by using Font Creator to copy the most used dingbats into a normal
font file replacing glyphs A,B,C, etc. -- but these programs are just too
smart for me.

Has anyone figured out how to copy and paste a simple Visio chart from Visio
2003 to Word 2003, and then to print the Word 2003 doc to Acrobat 6 pro?

Michael

 

[Randall Arnold]

When creating PDFs, do you use Acrobat's PDFwriter or Distiller?

PDFwriter craps all over truetype fonts in my experience. Distiller, when
configured properly, works very well.

Randall Arnold

 

[Umesh V.G]

Hi,

The best way to get a Visio drawing into Microsoft Word is to follow the
following steps:

1. Launch Visio if not already working. Open the drawing that you would
like to introduce into the word document
2. Select the shapes in the drawing with a CTRL+A and CTRL+C
3. Launch Microsoft Word if not already running and open the document you
would like to insert the drawing into
4. From the Edit Menu, Select Paste Special
5. In the Paste Special dialog box, Click on Paste and Select the Picture
(Enhanced Metafile) from the list box
6. Click OK
7. This pastes the drawing as an enhanced metafile into the document
8. The text can be found in the document with the image inserted.
9. Further this document can be printed on your printer

Further your issue refers to the text getting replaced:
When printing to a printer or when a PDF file is created or when PDF files
are sent
to a printer, some of the fonts are wrong, garbled, dislodged and appear on
different parts of the page

CAUSE:
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The printer substitutes the font with the device font in the graphic as wel
as in
the text

The printer properties can be set to print the page as required
1. In the print dialog, select the printer
2. Click on properties
3. In the layout tab, Click on Advanced
4. Under the Document Options, Select Postscript Options
5. In the TrueType Font Download Option click on Automatic and Select
Native
TrueType
6. Expand the tree and under the Graphic > True Type Font: Click on
Substitute with
Device Font, in the drop down list box, select Download as softfont
7. Also under the Graphic > Print Quality > Change thte value to 600 dpi if
text is
moving out of the expected position
8. Click Ok, Click Ok again
9. Next select the page range, Number of copies and click on Ok

Thanks and regards,

Umesh V.G
Microsoft Visio Technical Support

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