Tuesday, August 5, 2014

[SOLUTION] "Out of Memory' (Error 1416) When Saving Visio 2010 Drawings with Embedded PDF's

PROBLEM: After creating a Visio 2010 drawing and embedded PDF's, you receive an error: "Out of Memory' when saving the drawing.  The exact message reads:

An error (1416) occurred during the action Save.
There is not enough memory to complete the requested action.



SOLUTION: There is a bug in the way Visio 2010 handles PDF's and automatically "groups" them.

  1. Select the PDF(s) in your Visio drawing
  2. Click the Group menu item
  3. Select Ungroup


You should now be able to successfully save the file.

UPDATE: If this does not fix your particular problem, as it does for me, you can also try the following work-around that involves creating a picture file from your PDF and inserting that instead: