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Preparing an MS Visio form for professional printing
As already mentioned, color separation must be carried out if you plan on printing a color forms at a printing house.
Color separation, however, cannot be carried out within MS Visio itself, therefore, if you used this editor we
recommend that the form be converted to CorelDraw format and that color separation be carried out within
CorelDraw:
As already mentioned, color separation must be carried out if you plan on printing a color forms at a printing house.
Color separation, however, cannot be carried out within MS Visio itself, therefore, if you used this editor we
recommend that the form be converted to CorelDraw format and that color separation be carried out within
CorelDraw:
1. In MS Vision open the *.vsd file containing your form (File>Open).
2. Select the Save As item in the File menu and select the Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) file format in
2. Select the Save As item in the File menu and select the Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) file format in
the File of Type field.
Notes.
Notes.
1. Every single MS Visio form page must be saved as a separate *.cgm file,as MS Visio saves the
current opened page to such a file.
2. When you save a form page to CGM format, no elements should be selected on the form,
otherwise only those objects will be saved to the *.cgm file.
3. Run
CorelDraw.
4. Open all the *.cgm files relating to your form in CorelDraw.
Note. If you used the ABBYY FormReader stencils to create your form, the Font Matching Results dialog
will open when you open the *. cgm files concerned. You must then specify the fonts to be used in place of
the standard stencil fonts:
will open when you open the *. cgm files concerned. You must then specify the fonts to be used in place of
the standard stencil fonts:
5. For CMYK palette objects, transform the colors in the PANTONE palette using CorelDraw tools.
Note. To find out whether only PANTONE colors have been used on the form, open the list of used colors
in the Print Preview mode (Settings>Separations menu).
in the Print Preview mode (Settings>Separations menu).
6. Once you have completed your changes, save the files to *.cdr format.