Image Converter For Visio. To work with an image as a shape it first needs to be converted. They can be created from imported images and visio supports most image file types.

Whilst the visio application is relatively expensive microsoft offer a freeware application microsoft visio viewer which allows for vsd files to be opened effectively in read only mode. One of them is image converter for visio which pretends to even be able to add connection points to shapes. Plus you can also batch convert images using this tool.
Visio files can also be opened using microsoft internet explorer.
To have the similar behaviour as shape the shape needs to be converted. If it possible how can i achieve it. Thanks jpg s are bit images and visio is a metafile tool they aren t the same core structure. In visio designs and drawings are produced from shapes.