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Visio Nerd Videos – For Developers!

July 14, 2016 By Visio Guy 3 Comments

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If you’re interested in the deeper workings of Visio, then you’ll be interested in a series of videos that I’ve been in remiss in reporting!

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Filed Under: Code, Data, Development, Power User, Shapes, ShapeSheet, Tools, Video Tagged With: John Goldsmith, Programming, shapeshe, ShapeSheet, ShapeSheet Formulas, ShapeSheet Functions

Visio Touch Gesture UX Shapes

June 17, 2010 By Visio Guy Leave a Comment

The frenzied launch of Apple’s sadly-named iPad really highlights how big touch-based user interfaces are these days. If you are a UX designer or are working out user interfaces, then you’ll need to include touch gestures in your plans.

Luckily, John Goldsmith has just released an excellent stencil of Visio touch gesture shapes to help you lay out your ideas!

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Filed Under: Illustration, Web Design, Wireframes & IA Tagged With: John Goldsmith, multi-touch, touch, user-interface

Remove Backgrounds From Images With Office 2010!

November 11, 2009 By Visio Guy 3 Comments

office-2010-background-removalI just read about an extremely cool feature coming in Office 2010, thanks to John Goldsmith’s visLog.

The new functionality will help you to remove backgrounds from images, essentially cutting out the subject of a picture and allowing your own backgrounds to show through.

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Filed Under: News, Power User Tagged With: John Goldsmith, Office 2010, Transparency, Transparent

Improving Visio’s Save As Web Feature

September 29, 2008 By Visio Guy Leave a Comment

Visio’s built-in Save As Web feature has some pretty neat capabilities.

You can search for text, pan and zoom the always-smooth vector output, view Shape Data fields by Ctrl+clicking on shapes, and tab between Visio pages in one browser page.

But people want more. The features seem to always a-l-m-o-s-t do what they need.

This article will point you in the direction to do just that: get the Save As Web feature to do what you want it to do!

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Filed Under: Code, Development Tagged With: javaScript, John Goldsmith, Save As HTML, Web, XML

Release the Power of Visio Custom Line Patterns

March 3, 2008 By Visio Guy 8 Comments

Read Full ArticleIf you have a need to create repeating graphical elements, then learning how to create custom line patterns in Visio is absolutely essential.

Visio custom line patterns offer a power and flexibility that will save time for both your end-users and your solution development effort. And your final product will have a refined and elegant look.

Recently, John Goldsmith of Visual Signals, UK posted two excellent articles about creating custom line patterns in Visio.

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Filed Under: Development, Illustration Tagged With: Artistic Effects, Custom Line Patterns, Custom Patterns, John Goldsmith, random, repeating shapes

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