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Improving Visio’s Save As Web Feature

September 29, 2008 By Visio Guy Leave a Comment

Visio’s built-in Save As Web feature has some pretty neat capabilities.

You can search for text, pan and zoom the always-smooth vector output, view Shape Data fields by Ctrl+clicking on shapes, and tab between Visio pages in one browser page.

But people want more. The features seem to always a-l-m-o-s-t do what they need.

This article will point you in the direction to do just that: get the Save As Web feature to do what you want it to do!

The Visio Save As Web feature creates all sorts of files that will confuse the buhjeezus out of you. But they’re mostly small files. They just sit there on your hard drive, looking up at you, begging you to open them up and modify them.

“Please Sir, tweak me, I’m only 20K!”

I dare you to peek inside the sub-directory that is created when you do an export! See if you can resist!

Oh sure, there’s a lot in there. Good Lord, there’s the almost dead .vml-language output that gives you a vector-representation of the Visio drawing. This serves you well when you pan and zoom in the browser, but one wonders about the future.

There are .gif images. A .css stylesheet controls the look-and-feel of the export. There are .emz files–I don’t know what those are for!

There are .xml data files to hold Shape Data fields and other information. And java-script .js files perform fancy functions – after you click the button to ignore the security-warning, of course.

And then there are actually multiple .htm files, if you’re not confused already!

Phew! It’s enough to make you forget it all and go back your real job!

Luckily, John Goldsmith, who authors the Visio blog:Visual Signals, has been chipping away at all those files, slowly figuring out what they do, and writing about them in a series of articles.

If you want to build a Bold New World of Visio web-export, I urge you to take a look at these great entries:

  • Editing the Save As Web details table
  • Changing a Save As Web cursor
  • Escaping from Save As Web Page links
  • Link to specific page in ‘Save As Web’

Since John is sure to add more articles (hint, hint!), you can keep up with the latest by having a look at his Save As Web category too: Visual Signals: Save As Web Category.

You might also check out a related post on this site. The article and download talk about a custom, VBA-driven Visio html-export that creates pop-up windows when you mouse over shapes that have Shape Data fields in them. See: Customized Visio HTML Export

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Filed Under: Code, Development Tagged With: javaScript, John Goldsmith, Save As HTML, Web, XML

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