Tutorial for Amazing Visio - Easy Publish
2. Publishing Your Drawing Offline

This tutorial shows you the process to publish your drawing to Word, PowerPoint, and others.

visio_EasyPublish_User.PNG (2176 bytes) 1. Publishing Your Drawing to Word

Use these steps to publish your drawing to Microsoft Word (version 97 or later).

  1. Ensure that you have gone through tutorial one.

  2. Choose Word from the following list. 
    visio_EasyPublish_Destination.PNG (990 bytes)

  3. Optionally choose visio_EasyPublish_SaveWithDocument.PNG (598 bytes).  This will save a copy of the page pictures inside of your Word document. 

  4. Open a Word document or create one.  Type in some text and place the insertion point where you want the drawing pages to be.

  5. Click the visio_EasyPublish_Publish.PNG (440 bytes) button.  The selected pages will be inserted into your Word document.  You can move and resize the pictures as any regular pictures.

visio_EasyPublish_User.PNG (2176 bytes) 2. Editing Your Drawing

Use these steps to edit the source pages and refresh the insertions.

  1. Click the Close button to close Easy Publish.

  2. Close the sample Visio drawing.

  3. Click a page insertion in the Word document, such as the second page.

  4. Click this icon visio_EasyPublish_SysTrayIcon.PNG (1502 bytes) and then choose this menu item:
    visio_EasyPublish_OpenSourceDrawing.PNG (1405 bytes)

  5. The sample drawing is opened in Visio with the selected drawing page displayed.

  6. Edit this page, optionally other pages as well, and then publish them again.  Insertions in the Word document will be refreshed automatically.

visio_EasyPublish_User.PNG (2176 bytes) 3. Publishing Your Drawing to PowerPoint

  1. Use the above process but choose PowerPoint from this list:
    visio_EasyPublish_Destination.PNG (990 bytes)

  2. Open a PowerPoint presentation (version 97 or later). 

  3. Click the Publish button.  All the pages will be inserted into the same slide.

  4. To insert one drawing page per slide, publish one page a time to the corresponding slide.

visio_EasyPublish_User.PNG (2176 bytes) 4. Publishing Your Drawing to Other Software Packages

You can choose Manually from this list visio_EasyPublish_Destination.PNG (990 bytes) to publish your drawing pages to any software packages that support OLE.

Easy Publish will show you the folder with all the PNG files for the drawing pages.  Simply insert these files into the the software's document.  Check the online help of the software for more information.

visio_EasyPublish_User.PNG (2176 bytes) 5. What's the Next?

You can now click here to go through the tutorial to publish your drawing online.

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