Font spacing (kerning) issues after cut & paste from Visio into Word

Hello Chris,

As per the description provided, there is a font spacing issue after you paste the contents into Word document.

Try to use the ‘Paste Special’ and use the different options while pasting and check how it works.

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Thank you.

Nayana,

I've tried using all 3 types of paste from Visio into Word.

Option A: As Microsoft Visio Drawing Object below.  Fonts are all screwed up - kerning is the issue.  Looks unprofessional when printed:

Option B: As Device Independent Bitmap.  Horrible.  Completely unusable:

Option C: As Picture (Enhanced Metafile).  Seems to be identical to Option A:

Option D: Using the Snipping Tool.  Surprisingly, the best of all the options, but still not perfect.  Fuzzy, blurred edge text:

... I think I've used up all my options for cutting and pasting from Visio into Word.

My question is ... how does someone who works on documentation AT Microsoft accomplish this and make it look professional?  They can't possibly be using the Snipping Tool, can they??

Chris.

This definitely looks like a bug. I solved the problem by selecting the objects I wanted in Visio, the select File->Save As... and for file extension, choose ".png". In the next dialog box, for resolution, select the "Printer" option. Then this image can be imported into Powerpoint, and the kerning problems disappear.

-Sean

This definitely looks like a bug. I solved the problem by selecting the objects I wanted in Visio, the select File->Save As... and for file extension, choose ".png". In the next dialog box, for resolution, select the "Printer" option. Then this image can be imported into Powerpoint, and the kerning problems disappear.

-Sean

YES this must be a bug; and using .png to import in powerpoint is not an option for me.

Microsoft please fix it!!

For years, I have been pasting lots of Visio drawings into Word (and when I say a lot, I do mean a lot because I write technical documents for a living). The text written in Visio always looked crisp and clear until… Word 2013 and Visio 2013. It now looks exactly as canadiense99 described and illustrated it. This is absolutely a bug in this iteration of Office and it is impacting the overall quality of the documents produced. This must be fixed as soon as possible.

Further to SeanInANutshell’s suggestion to use an intermediary file saved as PNG, I investigated the problem and found out Word has trouble to preserve the correct font kerning not only of Visio drawings pasted into Word (whether as Microsoft Visio Drawing Object or as Enhanced Metafile), but also of inserted EMF drawings (a Visio drawing saved as Enhanced Metafile for example). However, a Visio drawing saved as Windows Metafile (WMF) and inserted into Word comes in crisp and clear. It is an extra step, but as opposed to saving as PNG, WMF is a vector format and the inserted drawing can be enlarged without any problem.

I have the same kerning failures when pasting Microsoft Visio Drawing Objects from Visio 2013 into Word 2013 -- a year and four months later.

Bitmapped graphics, like PNG, are also unacceptable in my work. The later updated 2007 applications did not have this problem.

I'm guessing a Visio drawing object uses (contains or creates) EMF internally for display and/or printing, so that's probably why the problem is observed to be the same when pasting an EMF. The WMF format appears to be a workaround, but is not the solution that users need.

Microsoft, this is a basic need. Please fix it.

I just upgraded from Visio 2007 to Visio 2016, and the text kerning in the PNG's that I generate from Visio is messed up. The kerning in the text of these same diagrams was fine in Visio 2007.  This is a big problem for me now!!!

Microsoft, please fix this ASAP.