

It is probable that an available budget is too low to fund the acquisition of this Microsoft software, or perhaps that the program is too complex for the intended purpose. Nowadays, Visio is available as part of the “Standard” and “Professional” editions of MS Office, and also as an additional purchase for Microsoft 365.Ī quick glance at the scope and price of the program lets you know that the application is primarily designed for professional use in larger companies – something which also explains the relatively small circulation of the program. Since then, newer versions of the tool have been released regularly, but never as part of the various Office Suites. Having adapted it to their own concepts, they then proceeded to publish it as part of their Microsoft Office family under the name Microsoft Visio. This will also result in a small final document.The turn of the century saw Microsoft purchase the company Visio, and with it the software of the same name, for approximately 1.3 billion dollars.

If the image only contains text (like in this case) it's also a good option to use the correct font and just type the text of the image in a textbox and move this textbox to the exact right place. You'll only see a "bounding"-box (placeholder for the image).

That would be sharpest (and smallest in size) but the downside is you don't see the image on screen in Open Office (only when printing and exporting to PDF). EPS file for the image with vector-information. However, you do have to find a good balance between image quality and final size of your document (You wouldn't want to E-mail a 4 Mb document every time) A final document of somewhere between 50kb to 300kb would be the most ideal.Įven better would be to use a. Images from websites are usually only intended for display on screen and when used in documents tend to become blurry. When creating letters with stationery in Open Office it is best to use high quality images of at least 300dpi and preferable 600dpi. Creating a PDF from this does not improve the image. However when zooming in (with Ctrl + Mousewheel-up), it was very clear. In Open Office it was not as clear as in the PDF because the page in Open Office is somewhat reduced in size on screen (with the borders). After seeing the PDF with accompanying Open Office document it was clear the original image in Open Office was of low quality (96dpi).
