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How to Convert PDF to Visio

"Do you have a number of diagrams in PDF which needs to be converted into Visio supported file format?" Converting any PDF file into Visio supported file format is the best solution to use graphic images and diagrams in Visio drawings easily. Visio file formats supports only design tools such as Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw and AutoCAD. Basically, it does not support PDF files. If you have a couple of graphics, images or vector based designs in PDF file format you can choose to convert PDF to Visio. Below are the easy steps that you can follow.

Part 1Ideal PDF to Visio Converter

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Wondershare PDFelement is an efficient and professional application which offers you essential features to easily edit, modify text, images and pages in PDF files. The embedded OCR feature even lets you freely make changes on image-based scanned PDF files.

You will not have to go through the complicated settings to convert your PDF file in any format, all the conversion tools are present right in PDFelement. With a single click, you can convert PDF from or to images, MS documents, text files and more. You can also restrict access or editing rights to your files by adding passwords. Digital signatures, watermarks, and redactions are other useful security features that you can use on confidential documents.

Part 2 How to Convert PDF to Visio Compatible Formats

Follow the above step-by-step user guide on how to convert PDF to a format supported by Visio.

Step 1. Open PDF File

Launch PDFelement and open PDF document by clicking the "Convert PDF" button. Now, you will receive a new dialog box where you can click "Add Files" to import as many PDFs as you want.

Step 2. Convert PDF into Visio

Choose the output format for your PDF. You can choose any Visio supported formats such as .jpg, .bmp, .png, .txt and so on. After that, choose the output folder to save the Visio file format in your desired file destination. Finally click "Convert" to begin the process.

Step 3. Import Converted File into Visio

Open any version of Visio program and go to the "Insert" tab from the Illustrations menu and select Picture. Open the folder which contains the converted image file, select the image file and click "Open". The graphic images opened in Visio drawings always open as metafiles whereas bitmap image files stays on as bitmap in Visio drawings.

Part 3 Microsoft Visio Supported File Formats

Visio supports more than 22 file formats and it allows you to import graphic images and vector based designs as metafiles into Visio drawings. But Bitmap images such as .pcx, .bmp, etc. always remain as bitmaps. It's better to convert the vector based graphic designs as Visio drawings as the editing in original file format gives unnecessary jagged lines in your Visio drawings. A list of popular file formats used in Visio Drawings:

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Published: Nov 03,2016 9:32 am / Updated: Nov 03,2016 16:30 pm

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