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
    2014-10-13T08:05:24+00:00

    Hi,

    There are two files in the OneDrive folder that I shared.  One is the Visio file with the image already embedded into it (I would expect that to be blurred when you extract it - that's kind of the whole point of this thread), the other file is a copy of the original image before it has been inserted into the Visio drawing.  If you can't see two files in the folder, please let me know and I'll share it again.

    Thanks for your help.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-10-13T07:09:01+00:00

    Thanks for the swift reply.  I have uploaded the Visio file and the original image here: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=44F91E8D89CBF401!13045&authkey=!ABaWkwy2EwHuOJI&ithint=folder%2cvsdx

    Thanks mcking38. When I see the file and extracted the image, the image file itself is blurred. Can you share the original image as well along with the file so that I can try this at my end.

    I am trying to determine if -

    1. The right patch is applied.
    2. Registry is setup correctly.
    3. Post these steps, the image is inserted in the file.

    Thanks.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-10-11T18:55:52+00:00

    I have exactly the same problem. MS please fix this!!

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-10-10T16:06:49+00:00

    May 22nd is when I started inquiring about this glitch.  That is my main frustration.  I've been ignored for 5 months now.  The ONLY purpose for buying Visio is so I could add components to PDF or PNG full size schematics.  This seems like such an easy solution for the engineers since it never was an issue before 2013.

    Visio takes a perfect high resolution schematic and turns it into ****.  Sure, I agree with you that it works fine otherwise, but like I said, that's not why I bought it.

    What?  My advice was use freeware(dia) for what you are doing because a $300 program can't do a simple function.  To me me it's like doing everything exceptionally well, but not being able to save.

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-10-10T15:29:47+00:00

    Jeffery - with all due respect, it doesn't really matter how good the picture is to start with (it was exported from a PDF), the point is that Visio currently makes it noticeably worse.

    I couldn't disagree with you more when you say that "Visio 2013 is garbage".  In my opinion, it does a pretty good job most of the time and while issues such as these are annoying, there is very little software out there that I am aware of that is 100% bug free. 

    I also seem to have missed the pertinent constructive advice in your post - was there a helpful point to what you were saying or were you just having a rant?

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