No matter how good of a picture I have when I insert it into Visio 2013 Pro, it is blurry.

Anonymous
2013-09-04T19:04:00+00:00

I get blue prints as JPG PNG BMP but no matter how good the quality of the picture, after it is inserted into Visio none of the words can be read.  I even used a 600 dpi 36"X24" crystal clean blueprint and it still looked blurry or pixilated in Visio.  What's the deal with this $300 software?  I can open up the bmp png jpg in previewer and it looks great zoomed in by the way.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-10-13T18:11:35+00:00

    No, on a new install with all the patches in place, Visio still blurs quality images.  Try again.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-10-13T21:38:18+00:00

    Thanks! It is getting better now but not perfect yet.

    I use png-files as backgrounds for technical drawings with Visio 2013.

    I found out that smaller paper sizes like A4 now work very good and are not blurry anymore.

    Unfortunately the problem is still there when it comes to A1 or A0 paper sizes.

    As a workaround i try to split the background in several smaller images now...

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-10-14T05:02:45+00:00

    mcking38, the patch may not be installed correctly. Can you try this on some other machine to isolate the problem or try and install a newer patch.

    DragonIvec, please provide some more details. Share the image that you are using along with the Visio file where it is blurring.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-10-14T07:23:30+00:00

    Thanks for your help, Amardeep.  I have just tried it on another machine, but I get exactly the same problem, including that I can't see either of the patches in the list of installed updates, but when I try to install them it says that they are already installed.  The image is still blurred when inserted.  Can you suggest anything else?

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-10-16T20:22:04+00:00

    What is the point of a forum if you don't go back and look at previous posts?  Look at my 9/11/13 post so you can see the picture I posted.  Note that a year later(with the updates) nothing has changed.   Amardeep, be honest here.  Can you import a high definition .png file that's 24"X36" into Visio without it going blurry?  If you can, show me.

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