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Subject:RE: Why JPGs for screen captures? test results From:"Sean Brierley" <sbri -at- haestad -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:19:26 -0500
Yes.
What you should do is print PDF from Visio using the Distiller printer
(you need Acrobat for this) and then Save the PDF as EPS. Otherwise,
maybe EMF will do in a pinch (Visio really needs some work in the
EPS-creation dept.)
John wrote:
> I was doing TIFs of 11X17 Visio diagrams and the TIFs were in the
> range of 20mb each. Needless to say, when I switched to EPS, the
> sizes came down considerably.
Oh man... now we're talking *vector* graphics... a whole 'nother can of
worms. If you export to TIFF from Visio, does it rasterize the image?
That might explain the increased size.
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