Comments for Visio Guy

Comment on Text Resizing with ShapeSheet Formulas by Chris

Chris — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:16:10 +0000

Is there an easy solution for font resize/scaling based on the length of the string?

e.g. If I have a rectangle shape that is 15×10, and I put STATE_VAR1 in the text box, the text will line wrap. However, resizing the text to always allow it to fit on 1 line would be nice. I haven’t found any strlen type functions that I could use to calculate a new font size/scale.

Thanks

Comment on European Cup 2008 Auto-Updating Visio Diagram (v2) by Visio 3D network shapes | lohan.me

Visio 3D network shapes | lohan.me — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:23:47 +0000

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Comment on Visio Art by Wapperdude

Wapperdude — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:10:08 +0000

Visio Guy –

I would be surprised if any website would arbitrarily allow anyone, other than the owner, to post pictures directly. That seems to be inherently fraught with security issues and privelege abuse. If it were my website, that “represents” me, then I want control over what gets posted. Keep the two cents, only worth a penny or two.

Comment on Map of North America by Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:57:35 +0000

Hi Gordon,

1. “I” didn’t depict anything. I modified shapes that ship with Visio.
2. How ’bout some references or input as to what is wrong or missing or upside down?

Cheers,

Chris

Comment on Map of North America by Gordon Johnston

Gordon Johnston — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:31:22 +0000

Hi Chris,

On your map of Canada you do not correctly depict the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

Gordon

Comment on Export All Pages in Document by Diwakar

Diwakar — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:39:15 +0000

Excellent Script!

Comment on Customized Visio HTML Export by Lars Blixt

Lars Blixt — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:54:25 +0000

Excellent. Really nice I wonder why Microsoft does not have this function by default. Is it it easy to have more than three properies displayed in the pop-up? And is it possible to change the colour of the font and backgroudcoulor for the pop-up window?

Comment on Map of North America by David Parker

David Parker — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:31:51 +0000

I did show how to use MapPoint and Visio to create a Bubble Chart in my blog: here.

Comment on Map of North America by Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:59:32 +0000

Hi again, Chris,

One thing that you could do with Visio 2007 Professional is link Data Graphics (data-related annotations/adornments to shapes) to state-shapes from Excel data. But the key to the data would be fairly simple, such as State = “Mississippi”

It wouldn’t be a fancy-schmancy geo-coded, address-lookup relationship.

So for example, you could have a U.S. Map or a region thereof, and show sales performance based on color–from your Excel data. Hot states could be red, under-performing states could be blue, etc, depending on how you defined the Data Graphic.

- Chris

Comment on Map of North America by Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:52:30 +0000

Hi Chris,

I’m not sure how much geo-coding the Visio 2007 map shapes have. They do have some info that allows them to be positioned relative to each other, but I think that’s just graphical info, not real geo-coding.

There is a hidden field called “User.MapData” inside of each map shape, but I’m not sure exactly what it is for.

So the answer is not “No”, it’s “I’m not sure”.

Visio 2007 has a lot of cool data-related features, and it may be that with just a little coding or some clever setting-up, you can get what you are looking for. Maybe someone else will chime in with a comment…

Here are two slightly-related articles that might be of interest to you:

Getting geography data from Visio
Flags of the World