Automatically Resizing a Drawing

[jkiser]

I have a flowchart originally drawn on a 11 X 17 drawing page.

Now that it's done, I want to print it on letter size paper. I've changed
the printer settings and the drawing page settings to letter size. Now, is
there a way for the drawing to automatically scale down to fit on that size
paper?

I apologize if this is simple and I just missed it but I didn't see any
directions on how to do this on the machine or web help.

Thanks

J

 

[Chris Roth [MVP]]

Check under File > Page Setup.

There's an option under Print Zoom for "fit to X pages across and Y pages
down". You should be able to manipulate this to get your drawing onto the
right-size piece of paper.

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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

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[jkiser]

That didn't work for me. It changed the paper size but now the flowchart
bleeds over the edges.

In the File - Page Setup - Drawing Scale tab, I could change the drawing but
it didn't affect the font size so the words all bleed over the edge of the
boxes.

I want to scale everything down proportionately so that the chart fits on a
letter size piece of paper....anaologous to taking an 11 X 17 drawing and
shrinking it on a copy machine to fit 8 1/2 X 11 paper.

Thanks

 

[Big Al]

Hi JKiser...

If you click "File, Page Setup", and set the "Print Zoom" to 65% and then,
in Print Properties set the letter size page you'll get a print that is
pretty close to filling the 8.5" x 11" page. One border is a little large...
But if your readers will tolerate this abnormality you should be fine. (You
didn't say how critical it was that the size reduction be exact. For legal
things it might be no good. For more casual users it's lielt no one will
notice or care).

Al