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In Microsoft Visio (2016) whenever I insert an image of higher quality it turns up super blurry. I have tried to disable the compression already but whenever I attempt to change the setting, not only does it not change the image, it re ticks the box! This has been causing more than a few headaches for me as I need visible images for an assignment that needs to be completed.

Burgi
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Nathan Baxter
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I found a workaround. I haven't tested it thoroughly, but it seems to work in Visio 2016.

  1. Create your drawing and insert images; they will appear blurry
  2. Save your drawing and close it
  3. Locate the .vsdx-file in your file exporer
  4. Unzip the file or edit it through e.g. 7-Zip. See this tutorial on how to edit modern Office files
  5. Locate the images under \visio\media. Find out which one you need to replace by opening each of them Example
  6. Replace the low quality imported image in the zip-file by the high quality image. Make sure you keep the same file name Example Example
  7. Close the zip file/restore it to a .vsdx-file
  8. Reopen the file in Visio. You should now see the high quality version

Here is an example of the difference before and after the fix. I replaced the upper image: Low quality - High quality

sve
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Rescale the image with an app designed for maximum quality. Determine the dimension in pixels (length and height) and import the image into Paint.Net, an Open Source image manipulation app, or something with similar high quality scaling (which Microsoft Paint is not). Then, do Ctrl-R or Image | Resize and scale it down to the target size, select it again, and paste it into Visio, for a sharper result.

If you wish to rescale multiple images and save them before importing, Paint.Net also gives you the opportunity to save into PNG or JPG format and with the latter allows you to determine the degree of compression used when saving. Leave it at 100% for no compression of the JPG file.

K7AAY
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The zip workaround doesn't work in my case unfortunately.

The best I could do is:

  1. save the image as .bmp file with 150 pixels/inch (saving properties)
  2. import the picture to visio

This gives me the best resolution. BMP files are not compressed when imported. All other image files are compressed automatically.

I hope that helps.

Kind regards Riccardo

Ricci
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Open the image in MSPaint.

Select everything and copy.

Paste in visio.

Full quality image, atleast for me. (Visio Plan 2, Version 2502 Build 16.0) 64-bit

Norlig
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