Save Visio document programmatically

Visio Drawing Save Overview

Use the Diagram.Save method to save a Microsoft Visio drawing. There are overloads that allow saving a drawing to file. The drawing can be saved in any save format supported by Aspose.Diagram. For the list of all supported save formats see the SaveFileFormat Enum.

Saving Visio Diagram

The Diagram class of the Aspose.Diagram API represents a Visio drawing and developers can save its Visio diagram object in any supported file format. To save a Microsoft Visio file, simply use the Diagram.Save method, it accepts a file name with a complete path or a file stream object. Aspose.Diagram API infers the save format from the file extension and also offers an additional SaveFileFormat parameter to specify the output file format.

Save a Visio Diagram in any Supported File Format

Using Aspose.Diagram API, developers can save a Visio diagram in any supported file format as listed below: VSDX, VSDM, VSSX, VSSM, VSTX, VSTM, VDX, VSX, VTX, TIFF, PNG, BMP, EMF, JPEG, PDF, XPS, GIF, HTML, SVG, SWF and XAML

Saving Diagram Programming Sample

The example below saves a document to a file.

 // Save a Visio diagram

diagram.Save(GetMyDir() + "MyOutput.vsdx", SaveFileFormat.VSDX);

Specifying Visio Save Options

There are several Diagram.Save method overloads that accept a SaveOptions object. This should be an object of a class derived from the SaveOptions class. Each save format has a corresponding class that holds save options for that save format. For example, there is PdfSaveOptions for the SaveFileFormat.PDF save format.

Visio Diagram Save Options

These examples show how to:

Use of the Diagram Save Options

The code below shows how to set save options before saving a document to Visio format.

Use of the PDF Save Options

The code below shows how to set save options before saving a document to a PDF format.

Use of the HTML Save Options

The code below shows how to set save options before saving a document to HTML file format.

Use of the Image Save Options

The code below shows how to set save options before saving a document to image file format.

Use of the SVG Save Options

The code below shows how to set save options before saving a document to SVG format.

Use of the SWF Save Options

The code below shows how to set save options before saving a document to SWF format.

Sometimes, developers need to save or export Visio diagrams to different file formats programmatically (like VDX, PDF, JPEG and so on).

Save VSD file to different file formats (VDX, PDF and JPEG)

This article provides a code example that illustrates how to use VSTO and Aspose.Diagram for .NET to save a Microsoft Visio VSD file to a VDX file, PDF file or a JPEG file programmatically. Below are parallel code snippets for VSTO and Aspose.Diagram for .NET that explains how to save a VSD file into different file formats. You’ll notice that the Aspose.Diagram code is shorter. Feel free to use the code and change it to meet your specific needs.

Saving a VSD File to Other Formats with VSTO

VSTO lets you program with Microsoft Visio files. To save a file to other formats:

  1. Create a Visio application object.
  2. Make the application object invisible.
  3. Load the diagram.
  4. Save to VDX, PDF and JPEG.
  5. Quit the Visio application object.

Saving a VSD File with VSTO Programming Sample

Example:

 Saving VSD File to Other Formats with Aspose.Diagram for .NET

Using Aspose.Diagram, developers don’t need Microsoft Office Visio in the machine, and they can work independently of Microsoft Office Automation.

The code snippets below show how to:

  1. Load a diagram.
  2. Save the diagram to VSX, PDF and JPEG.

Saving VSD File with Aspose.Diagram for .NET Programming Sample

Example:

Open Visio document programmatically