VisioDrawing2SplittedPDFs

Exports each sheet of a .vsd as separate PDFs using Apache PDFBox. The directory used is the directory of the .vsd.

Tested with Microsoft Visio 2007.

Background

I have a Microsoft Visio drawing with multiple pages. In LaTeX, I cannot access each page indivudally, but have to use PDF as intermediate format. Therefore, I save the PDF and extract the necessary pages and rename each to the name of the respective sheet. This macro automates that using Apache PDFBox.

Requirements

• Java
• Apache PDFBox 1.6.0 app (http://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html -> pdfbox-app-1.6.0.jar)

Installation

• move pdfbox-app-1.6.0.jar to c:\apache

Usage

Visio does not offer a normal.dot. Therefore, it is not possible, to add the macro permanently to the toolbar (using VBA). Each document has to contain the code for the splittedPDFexport:

• Press ALT+F11 to open the VBA editor

• Press CTRL+M and import splittedPDFexport.bas

• Navigate to "ThisDocument ()"

• Add following code

   Private Sub Document_DocumentOpened(ByVal doc As IVDocument)
     Call splittedPDFexport.SetToolbar
   End Sub 
  

• To get rid of macro warnings, sign the VBA macro of splittedPDFexport

  • Follow the guideline by microsoft (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa163622%28office.10%29.aspx)

Customization

• The toolbar to put the button is configured by the constant toolbarCaption
• The caption of the button is configured by the constant buttonCaption
• The position of the button in the toolbar can only be changed in the code. Look for "Set vsoToolbarItem = vsoToolbarItems.Add" and change "Add" to ".AddAt()"
• The path to the PDFBox application is configured by the constant pdfboxappCMD

Notes on the implementation

• The macro could also be stored in a .vss file. I was not possible, however, to call the makro from the main document

License

VisioDrawing2SplittedPDFs copyright 2012 Oliver Kopp. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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