RE: Visio to Word

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

When you say "Onscreen" below, do you really mean "onscreen", 
or do you mean "onscreen in Word". If it also renders badly 
in the PDF output, that's not so good. Actual print-on-paper 
is the least of my worries.

I'd expect the Whitepaper PDF to be printed only a fraction 
of the time. The rest of the time it would be viewed by our 
own personnel trying to come up to speed on the new products, 
and by our [prospective] customers, on their tablets or laptops 
as ... wait for it .... an _onscreen_ PDF document. 

Eventually, when it settles down, it'll be on our external 
website as a viewable/downloadable PDF.


Only occasionally would I hand out the Word version of the doc, 
for a trainer or PLM or senior Sales-Eng to tweak. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Chung [mailto:tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca]
> Sent: May-28-12 11:36 AM
> To: McLauchlan, Kevin
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: Visio to Word
> 
> Further to what Fred said: When in a Windows environment, Word embeds
> Visio objects perfectly. If the recipient has Visio, the object can be
> edited or opened. If the recipient doesn't, the recipient can still
> view the preview image, but can't edit it.
> 
> OTOH, PDFs embed perfectly into Mac:Word, as OS X supports PDF
> natively.
> 
> Before embedding actual objects, I used to link to EPS files. As long
> as I exported as a PDF, the graphic quality was retained. Onscreen the
> images looked like crap, because the EPS file displayed the low res
> image header
> 
> Cheers,
> -Tony
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