Visio Page Setup
Jon (External)
Don't know whether this is the correct group but couldn't find one that really
fitted.
Does anyone know how to have different page orientation (portrait & landscape)
on different pages in a Visio 2000 drawing.
When you use the 'Page Setup' either the 'Print' or 'Page' Tab alters the
orientation for all pages.
I would like to be able to set this up for individual pages.
You can change orientations but the print page always stays the same.
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Best Regards
Jon
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Jonathan Curties, Principal Engineer
BAE SYSTEMS, Advanced Technology Centres
Bob Buckland ?:-)
There are 18 MS Office Visio newsgroups now
on the MS Public News server news://msnews.microsoft.com :) but
your ISP may not carry them. Try the link in in my signature
as well. The MS MVPs for Visio there have been working with Visio
for a number of years and some of the Visio team, now at MS participates
in some of the postings there and have a lot more experience with this :)
Mixing 'page' orientations can be a bit tricky in Visio and there are several ways to
approach it manually and programatically but this may help as a quick
look at comparing how things might be related by looking at Word 2000
and Visio 2000.
It may be the difference in the way folks think about changing orientation
in say Word vs. Visio and the way that the two programs try to explain
things that are different, yet using the same language :) It took me awhile
to see this in Visio and while I can understand it, I would like to be able
to do it like Word as well <g> but it's similar to Excel.
In Word 2000 you could be working on a portrait page, Insert=>Break and
set a new page break and change the orientation of the new page to landscape
and you'd be working with a page that would physically print rotated to landscape.
In Visio 2000 it appears that the size and orientation of the drawing 'page' and
the printed 'page' are separated and what you are selecting is how to scale the
dimensions of each page in your drawing set that are bigger or smaller than the
selected paper size for the drawing (all of its pages).
This may help illustrate ( at least what I'm seeing).
Create a new Drawing, letter size and select a letter size printer and set the
orientation to (o) Portrait in File=>Page Setup=>Printer Setup.
Use Insert=>Page to create Page 2 and then while Page 2 is
selected go to File=>Page Setup=>Page Size (or select 'Page Size' while
in the Insert=>Page dialog) and select (o) Pre-defined Size
and leave the settings for the
[ Standard | v]
[Letter: 8.5 in. x 11in. | v]
settings. At the bottom of the Page Size dialog the
(o) Portrait (o) Landscape
orientation should be available when you choose a selection other than
(o) Same as Printer.
Click (o) landscape (note how the drawing page is now
shown as overlapping the paper size) and then click the [Apply] button.
then[Okay].
Zoom the drawing to 'Page' to see the whole page and draw a rectangle
the same size as the full drawing page and fill it with a solid color (I chose
yellow)
Switch to Page 1, change zoom and also draw a full page rectangle and
fill it with a different solid color (I chose Red)
Now click on the Print Preview Icon (or use File=>Print Preview) and
click on the 'multipage' view icon on the toolbar. Switch back and forth
between viewing page 1 and page 2 and you'll see that one of the
rectangles matches the paper layout and the other is showing that it
will tile across two paper sheets when it prints 'actual size' (hovering the
mouse over parts of the drawing will show where the paper limits will
be, approximately).
While still in Print Preview and with the tiled drawing page selected
click on the [Setup...] Button and in /Print Setup\ change
Print Zoom (all pages) from 100% to the 'Fit to' choice and
choose 1 across by 1 down and click [Apply] and [Okay] and then
look at the print preview pages and now the drawing page that tiled
has been reduced to fit the paper-page.
To have the rotated (yellow) drawing page not be shrunken or tiled but
to print on the paper oriented to match the drawing create a new drawing
and in File=>Page Setup=>Print Setup set the paper to letter size and
(o) Landscape. In the first drawing use Edit=>Copy Drawing while
you're viewing the landscape (yellow) page, then switch to your new
drawing and paste it and check in Print Preview and it should be a fit
for the printed page.
(One thing that can confuse it more <g> is if you're looking at the page
and right click and under View-> switch between view vertical and view Horizontal.
as the View won't necessarily what will print.
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<<"Jon (External)" <jon.c...@gecm.com> wrote in message
news:8mbpgp$8te$1...@miranda.gmrc.gecm.com...
Hi,
Don't know whether this is the correct group but couldn't find one that really
fitted.
Does anyone know how to have different page orientation (portrait & landscape)
on different pages in a Visio 2000 drawing.
When you use the 'Page Setup' either the 'Print' or 'Page' Tab alters the
orientation for all pages.
I would like to be able to set this up for individual pages.
You can change orientations but the print page always stays the same.
Best Regards
Jon>>
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Hope that helps,
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