Real Concerns, Real Solution
(Customizing Your Publication)
Microsoft Visio has limitations on publishing your drawings. This page shows a
particular forum discussion found on Google.com for customizing the Web pages generated by
Visio.
In addition, it briefly presents the need of working on Windows Registry with the
latest Visio version 2003 and the impact on using your drawings in Word and PowerPoint
documents.
For more discussions on publishing your drawings offline and online, please scroll to
the bottom of this page.
Summary
User Pam Ss needs to customize her Visio drawing.
The answer from MS Support is that Pam has to modify the Windows Registry directly in order to use a
different template. It's not only a technical challege
to Pam, but also a risk of destroying her Windows
More: Visio 2003,
currently the latest version of Visio, has not improved:
 Tip: What Easy Publish can do for Pam
There are no Previous / Next buttons on the pages if Pam chooses to
publish her drawing pages separately.
Pam can keep all her drawing pages in one Visio drawing file and publish
them together. One reason for her to use separate files might be the fact that
accessing any pages directly instead of the frame page generated by Visio won't work.
Pam can add or modify templates with a regular Web page editor, such as
FrontPage, since all the templates in Easy Publish are regular Web pages. Please click here for details.
Handling the dash-line issue is even simpler:
Your drawing is presented as pictures and therefore dash-line is not an issue.
The Concern
> >> "Pam Ss"
> >> Has anyone tried to remove the navigational (gotoPrevpage,
> >> gotoNextpage) from the navigational bar?
> >>
> >> Each of my drawings are saved in separate files and
> >> hyperlinked throughout my web page so these selections
> >> only show the current page and the gotoPrevpage and
> >> gotoNextpage buttons do not work.
> >>
> >> Can anyone help????
The Answer from MS Support
IMPORTANT: This article contains
information about editing the registry.
Before you edit the registry, make sure that you understand how to
restore
it if a problem occurs. For information about how to do this, see the
"Restoring
the Registry" Help topic in Regedit.exe or the "Restoring a Registry Key"
Help
topic in Regedt32.exe.
SUMMARY
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If you would like to replace the default html template with one of your own
please follow the steps below.
MORE INFORMATION
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The following steps describe the process to replace the default HTML template with one of
your own:
1. Locate the default folder.
NOTE:In Win9x this folder is located in C:\Windows\Temp\Default. This folder contains 5
(five) .htm files, 4 (four) .gif files and 1 (one) .js file.
NOTE:In Win2000 it is located in C:\Documents and Settings\"Computer
Name"\Local Settings\Temp\Default.
2. Right click on the default folder, and select Copy.
3. Right-click on the desktop, and select Paste.
4. Rename this folder for this example I will call it the MyDefault folder for this
example.
1. To rename a folder, right-click the folder, and select Rename
2. This will highlight the existing name of the folder. Type the new name for the folder,
and press Enter
WARNING: Using Registry Editor incorrectly can
cause serious problems that may require that you reinstall your operating system.
Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems that result from the incorrect use of Registry
Editor can be solved. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.
For information about how to edit the registry, see the "Changing Keys and
Values" Help topic in Registry Editor (Regedit.exe) or the "Add and Delete
Information in the Registry" and "Edit Registry Data" Help topics in
Regedt32.exe. Microsoft recommends that you back up the registry
before you edit it. If you are running Windows NT or Windows 2000, Microsoft also
recommends
that you update your Emergency Repair Disk (ERD).
5. Open the Registry editor by clicking the Start button, and selecting Run
6. In the run dialogue box, type regedit
7. Click the + symbol next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER, to expand this folder.
8. Click the + symbol next to Software, to expand this folder.
9. Click the + symbol next to Visio, to expand this folder.
10. Click the + symbol next to Solutions, to exnand this folder.
11. Click the + symbol next to Save As HTML, to expand this folder.
12. Click the + symbol next to Themes, to expand this folder.
13. Left-click once on the Default folder to highlight it.
14. Click on the Registry menu, and select Export Registry File
15. Save the Registry file to your desktop
16. Right-click on the Registry file on your desktop, and select Edit
17. Replace all instances of |Default| with the |MyDefault|folder created in step 2.
18. Click File, and select Save As.
19. Change the name of the file to MyDefault.reg, and click Save
20. Double-click on the MyDefault.reg file on your desktop. This will automatically change
the information in the Registry to point to this folder instead of the Default folder.
--
A.H., MS Support
> Yes, this is a known issue. Complex dashed lines are converted to solid
> lines when saving to metafile format because the file size can
grow
> extremely large, causing performance to degrade when dashed lines appear in
> the metafile. Metafiles are used as the display format when embedding in
> other applications, so the problem also can appear when Visio
drawings are
> displayed inside Word and PowerPoint documents.
>
> Currently, the only way to configure this behavior in Visio
2003 is with a
> setting in the registry. Note that using the registry editor incorrectly
> can cause serious problems with your system, so use the registry editor at
> your own risk.
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See Also: Discussions on Word and PDF, PowerPoint and Web Page
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