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Discussions on Display

* * * Inserting a visio diagram / Multiple pages

Message One:

> > > Thickness of dashed, dotted, etc. lines in Visio diagrams inserted in
> > > PowerPoint slides increases tremendously. Some dashed lines change to
> > > solid and retain the correct weight. The outcome is the same for shape
> > > outlines, drawn lines and connector lines, and all non-solid line
> > > patterns I've tried.
> > >
> > > Any ideas? My slides are looking lousy and I'll have to stick with all
> > > solid lines (maybe change to gray instead of dashed) If I can't find a
> > > solution.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > YossiD

Message Two:

> I have a vision diagram that I am trying to include in my presentation. The
> text appears way to small. Is there a way to zoom in on the text within the
> presentation?

Message Three:

> 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.

Message Four:

> > > If you have a multi-page Visio file, is there a way to
> > > Import the whole thing into PPT ? If I go to INSERT >
> > > OBJECT, it will only insert the first page of the file.
> >

Support Answer:

> > PowerPoint only lets you work on a page (slide) at a time. There's no
> > notion of content that stretches across several slides. What exactly would
> > you want it to do with a multiple page visio file when imported? I'm
> > pretty sure you can't make it do that, but maybe there's another way to
> > sweet talk it.

Easy Publish Tips: 

1. Easy Publish inserts your drawing pages directly into your slides as high quality PNG picture  files.  Therefore you no longer have any display issues.

2. Easy Publish fully addresses your need of presenting multiple pages in your presentation.  You simply choose the pages to publish, and then press the Publish button.
   

3. You can choose an inserted page and click a button to edit the original drawing page.  And then press the Publish button again to update your insertion.

4. You can add a caption as part of your drawing page.

Fore more information, please click here.

Discussions on Printing

* * * visio does not print

Message One:

> I have a visio document with text boxes that will not
> print in the powerpoint document. It views in preview
> but not- it prints the timeline and lines, no text --What
> do I need to set to get the text to print?
>
> Thank You

Messge Two:

> One of my powerpoint 97 slide prints blank for some reason.
> I can not determine why. I copied a microsoft visio flow
> chart into the powerpoint slide. I can see it in the
> presentation but it will not print the flow chart in the
> slide. can anyone help? It is slide 14 of the attached
> presentation.


Message Three:

> I have an embedded visio diagram in a powerpoint
> presentation that prints okay in color but when printing
> in grayscale to a black/white printer the diagram labels
> and/or figures outlines do not print. (I can get
> sometimes the labels to print, but then the outlines
> don't, and vice versa.)
>
> Any clues on the best settings to do printing to a
> black/white printer would be appreciated.

Easy Publish Tips: 

1. Easy Publish inserts your drawing pages directly into your slides as high quality PNG picture  files.  Therefore you no longer have any printing issues.

2. You can choose an inserted page and click a button to edit the original drawing page.  And then press the Publish button again to update your insertion.

Fore more information, please click here.

See Also: Discussions on Word and PDF, and Web Page