Visio 2003 Font Mishagoss! (Was: Visio 2003 SVG files in FrameMaker)

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

It has been a while since I dared play with Visio, but on the basis of
this posting I did start Visio 2003 up to see what the "save" options looked
like these days. Yes, I couldn't find an EPS save feature - good riddance,
it didn't work worth a damn, anyway! And indeed I found the SVG save option.
The simple SVG samples I generated seemed to open without any glitches in
Adobe Illustrator 11.

But the BIG SURPRISE that I found was that Visio 2003 seems to support ONLY
TrueType fonts -- NO Type 1 fonts and NO OpenType fonts. This was not the
behaviour of earlier releases from what I recall. This happened on all three
of my systems! Can anyone else confirm that this change of behaviour 
occurred between Visio 2002 (XP) and Visio 2003? And what happens to older
Visio files that WERE formatted with Type 1 and OpenType in earlier Visio
versions? We would be interested in your experience and opinions on this.

        - Dov (the perplexed!)



At 9/13/2004 04:27 PM, Mike Stockman wrote:
>We started using Visio 2003 for diagrams (kind of an accidental upgrade,
>long story), and rather than fix their EPS exporting problems, Microsoft
>dropped EPS exporting altogether. No problem; we ran some experiments
>with SVG export for import into FrameMaker, and it seemed to work fine.
>
>The problem is that on some recent diagrams of increasing complexity
>(and using a bunch of Visio's fancier built-in stencils), the exported
>SVG looks fine, but imports into FrameMaker 7.1 without a bunch of the
>images, and sometimes with only one or two object's remaining.
>
>Has anyone had any experience importing Visio's SVG format into
>FrameMaker 7.1? We wanted to stick with a standard, cross-platform
>format on principle, so have avoided WMF files, but our options are
>dwindling if we can't get SVG to work.
>
>Thanks for any help,
>Mike
>
>P.S. FrameMaker 7.1 is also a little slow working with SVG graphics, so
>perhaps we're better off without them... I found some less-than-helpful
>tips in the Adobe knowledgebase about that, so I guess there's no
>perfect solution.
>
>-- 
>
>Mike Stockman


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