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Subject:Re: Need Word-to-Frame and VISIO estimation help From:Janet Valade <jvalade -at- IX -dot- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 4 Apr 1996 17:53:54 -0800
>I have a client with a set of five manuals in Word. Many of the diagrams
>were created in VISIO (whatever that is) and cut-and-pasted into the Word
>documents.
Visio is a nifty little package for creating org charts, flowcharts,
facility plans, network diagrams, etc. I am currently using it to draw
some flowcharts which I put into my Word document using "insert object".
(If anyone knows that I am doing something foolish, please feel free to
warn me.)
>I'd appreciate advice about the difficulties of Word-to-FrameMaker
>conversion, and I'd especially like to know more about VISIO -- in
>particular, what FrameMaker-friendly output formats I can use with it.
Looking in the Visio software, I find the following file types are
available when exporting pictures: ai, dxf, cgm, eps, pct, bmp, tif, wmf,
pcx.
