timw

troubles with 65meg file, looking for the fix in 5.5 sp2....anybody?

fryeguy

curious what is inside of a 65MB file? Lots of images?

ekalpakoff

I have one file that is pretty large maybe someone else has experienced this and has some opinions. On topic but, but different. Client provided us with (2) PDF's of the building layout. One for each floor. I have had pretty good luck with converting the PDF's to SVG since pdf doesn't work well. But after converting them and getting them into the drawing the visio file is pushing 25MB. Small in comparison to Tims file but what if there were four floors and my file was as big as tims?

First, am I converting the SVG's properly I wonder? Second, what if the visio files just needs to be that big? Tim and I can't be the only ones dealing with this right?

timw

If you have photoshop, you can easily convert PDFs to PNGs which are very small in visio.

ekalpakoff

Is there a way to keep them from having to be rasterized? SVG's are at least stable unlike pdfs in Visio but file size is an issue.

fryeguy

I usually crop the PDF file to the area I want and save as TIFF. These can be a little big but you have control of the resolution and colorspace which directly impacts size. TIFFs typically work very well.