How to export Visio graphic for Tex document?

I was searching for a solution for some time so it's probably usefull for someone else.

You have to do the following in the same order:

In Visio:

1. Go to options and open Customize Ribbon
2. Add the developertools to the menu
3. Go to the developer tab and open Show ShapeSheet -> Print Properties
4. Edit PageLeftMargin, PageRightMargin, PageTopMargin and PageBottomMargin to 1
5. Fit to Drawing using Design-->Size-->Fit to Drawing
6. Export PDF
7. options -> current page & don't show background
8. Save PDF file

In Tex as usual:

\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics{graphic.pdf}
    \caption{graphic} \label{fig:graphic}
\end{figure}

I hope this helps someone else struggling with this problem.

I had the same problem.

I found a simple way to deal with it.

• Save the chart as svg file by Visio.
• open the svg file by Inkscape.
• Save as the .pdf format
• On the next pop up window:
  • Embed Fonts
  • Use exported object's size
  • Margin 0.1
• click ok

Next the generated pdf file will be imported by latex easily as same as png or eps.

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But some times inkscape does not read the svg file properly and some mistakes are occurred. In this case the solution which works great and mentioned above is:

• save the pdf file by visio

• include the pdf file in latex

• use trim for cropping the figure in latex

for example:

\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth, trim={1cm 3cm 1cm 8cm},clip]{Fig.pdf}