When I look at linked Visio (2013) images in Framemaker 11, the text is corrupted. If I click on the image, and go into Visio, the images look fine in Visio. The particular corruption I see, is that rotated text comes out with the characters not ro

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May 22, 2014
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When I look at linked Visio (2013) images in Framemaker 11, the text is corrupted. If I click on the image, and go into Visio, the images look fine in Visio. The particular corruption I see, is that rotated text comes out with the characters not rotated. So ABC will come out A on top of B on top of C without being rotated. If I import into MS Word, the Visio drawing is okay. If then import into Framemaker, it is okay. Anyone know of a solution?

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feknight8

Inspiring

I have the same problem. It worked fine until I updated from Windows 7 to Windows 10. That is when it broke. My visio files are linked as OLE2 objects. I have Frame 9/10/11/12, and have been using these linked OLE images across all those FM versions, using several versions of Visio (the latest being 2007). But now all those FM versions do the same thing - take vertical text (that is rotated 90 degrees) and ignore the rotation, so the letters are stacked on top of each other instead of running from top to bottom.

Since it broke after the upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10, I assume it is something MSFT changed that broke this.

Any chance FM 2015 would work? Here is an example of what changed:

Jeff_Coatsworth

Community Expert

Try it out by getting the FM2015 version as a trial on some
non-production machine – remember to patch it up right away (it doesn’t come
with all patches installed) before trying out a copy of your content. BTW – the
OLE method is really old & not really supported anymore in the MS universe.

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feknight8

Inspiring

Thanks Jeff, Is there any kind of "linking" that does work today? I have 100s of these kinds of figures, that occasionally need updating. Today, I just do all my editing in Frame (double click on the linked image, and edit it). Then print the FM document to PDF and everything is good. The suggested methods mean I have to manually edit every figure in visio, and save each one as PDF. The only automatic part is that FM will import the new PDF - but I still have the extra step of creating 100s of PDF files every time I need to make a change.

Any thoughts?

Arnis Gubins

Inspiring

Did you copy & paste from Visio? If so, then you're not going to get anything better - the EMF format that is used is just not that well interpreted by FM's filters.

To get the best fidelity from Visio, create a PDF and then import that into FM.

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