VSDX → PDF turns every tab of a Visio drawing into a PDF page, so a flowchart or network map can be read, printed and signed off by people who have never had a Visio licence.
From real runs
| Element | Result | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Drawing pages | Kept | A 13-page process document came out as 13 PDF pages in the same order, and the four tabs of a network diagram (Structural, Physical, Logical, Rack) became four pages. |
| Page names | Kept | Each Visio tab name becomes a PDF bookmark, so the sidebar in a PDF reader lists First Page, MVP, Document Content Release and TEFO Change History for our four-page test. |
| Page size per page | Kept | A file mixing A4 portrait cover pages with one 32 × 22.8 inch planning sheet kept both sizes: 595 × 842 pt for the cover and 2314 × 1645 pt for the big sheet. |
| Shapes, connectors and arrowheads | Kept | Boxes, routed connectors and double-headed arrows in the WAN and wireless network page landed where Visio drew them, with the arrows still pointing the right way. |
| Shape labels | Changed | Labels stay as selectable text, but Calibri and Segoe UI are replaced by Noto Sans or Liberation Sans, so a label sized to fit its box can wrap one word earlier. |
| Gradient fills | Changed | A rectangle filled with a two-colour gradient came out as one flat blue. |
| Theme styles in newer drawings | Lost | In two of the nine .vsdx drawings, shapes styled only through the Visio theme were missing: a logistics map lost its truck and warehouse icons and most connectors, and another page kept only its labels. |
| Hyperlinks | Lost | The 13-page document carried 19 shape hyperlinks; none of them are clickable in the PDF. |
| Layers and background pages | Changed | Layers are flattened into one drawing and shapes on a layer set not to print are left out. A background page is drawn under the pages that use it and also appears once more as its own page at the end. |
A 13-page process document came out as 13 PDF pages in the same order, and the four tabs of a network diagram (Structural, Physical, Logical, Rack) became four pages.
Each Visio tab name becomes a PDF bookmark, so the sidebar in a PDF reader lists First Page, MVP, Document Content Release and TEFO Change History for our four-page test.
A file mixing A4 portrait cover pages with one 32 × 22.8 inch planning sheet kept both sizes: 595 × 842 pt for the cover and 2314 × 1645 pt for the big sheet.
Boxes, routed connectors and double-headed arrows in the WAN and wireless network page landed where Visio drew them, with the arrows still pointing the right way.
Labels stay as selectable text, but Calibri and Segoe UI are replaced by Noto Sans or Liberation Sans, so a label sized to fit its box can wrap one word earlier.
A rectangle filled with a two-colour gradient came out as one flat blue.
In two of the nine .vsdx drawings, shapes styled only through the Visio theme were missing: a logistics map lost its truck and warehouse icons and most connectors, and another page kept only its labels.
The 13-page document carried 19 shape hyperlinks; none of them are clickable in the PDF.
Layers are flattened into one drawing and shapes on a layer set not to print are left out. A background page is drawn under the pages that use it and also appears once more as its own page at the end.
We converted our Microsoft Visio sample (233 KB) with Office engine on 2026-10-20. It took 2.8 s and produced a 280 KB PDF file, 1.2× larger than the input. The engine raised 1 warning, listed below.
Input · sample.vsdx · 233 KB
ZIP with 64 parts
Output · sample.pdf · 280 KB
PDF 1.6, 4 pages, selectable text (LiberationSans, NotoSans-Bold, NotoSans-BoldItalic, NotoSans-Italic), 0 image objects
LibreOffice
soffice --headless --convert-to pdf --outdir out network.vsdxEvery page gets the size of the largest page in the drawing, and Calibri is substituted unless you install a metric-compatible font such as Carlito.
Microsoft Visio
File → Export → Create PDF/XPS Document → Options → Pages: AllThe exact route, and the only one that keeps hyperlinks and theme effects. Visio for the web can also download a PDF of the current page.
The HTTP API and the MCP server run the exact engine this page uses (Office engine); the response carries the same warnings the web converter shows. Check support first with GET /api/v1/pairs?from=vsdx&to=pdf.
curl -X POST https://filetypeconverters.com/api/v1/convert \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FTC_API_KEY" \
-F "file=@input.vsdx" -F "from=vsdx" -F "to=pdf" \
--output output.pdfConvert it to PDF here and open that on any computer or phone. For a quick look Visio for the web also opens .vsdx files from OneDrive, but it needs a Microsoft account and only shows one page at a time.
Yes. Every foreground page becomes a PDF page in tab order, each at its own size. Background pages are drawn behind the pages that use them and are added once more at the end.
Recent Visio versions can style shapes entirely through the document theme. Our office engine does not read every theme setting, so those shapes can come out empty or not at all. If that happens, export the PDF from Visio or Visio for the web.
Yes. The drawing pages convert as usual and the macros are ignored; nothing in the VBA project runs or ends up in the PDF.