Visio 2003 "Save As" Question....

[Brian]

I've made a drawing with Visio 2003. The drawing is 48mb. Some of my
co-workers are still using Visio 2002. When I save my 2003 drawing in Visio
2002 format the drawing goes from 48mb to 384mb.

Any ideas as to why??? I'm at a loss.........

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Brian

 

[Paul Herber]

I've made a drawing with Visio 2003. The drawing is 48mb. Some of my
co-workers are still using Visio 2002. When I save my 2003 drawing in Visio
2002 format the drawing goes from 48mb to 384mb.

Any ideas as to why??? I'm at a loss.........

Does your drawing contain a number of images, I believe Visio 2003
introduced image compression, whereas before images were stored in a
bitmap format. Hence, saving as 2002 format will have to expand these
images and make the file size larger.

 

[Brian]

Thanks for the reply Paul.

Your answer would seem reasonable as there are quite a few stencils and
inserted pictures.

Thank you.