can you crop or select parts of a visio page

[kev1n]

 

[John Goldsmith]

You can crop using the Crop tool on the Drawing toolbar
(View/Toobars/Drawing). For non-rectangular shapes (and for rectangular,
but you may as well just crop the image) you can define a custom fill
pattern based on an image and then select that custom fill pattern for your
respective shape.

Hope that helps.

Best regards

John


John Goldsmith
www.visualSignals.co.uk

 

[Chris Roth [MVP]]

Nice job, John!

I've article-ified this on Visio Guy.

Folks can read about Irregular Cropping of images in Visio here:

http://www.visguy.com/2007/07/29/masking-images-in-visio/

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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

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http://www.visguy.com/category/shapes
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http://www.visguy.com/visio-links/

 

[John Goldsmith]

Thanks Chris. Excellent blog as usual by the way.

It occurs to me re-reading Kevin's original post that you may be refering to
exporting a selection as an image? If that's the case you can select all of
the shapes you want to include and then 'Save As' and choose .gif (or
another file format) to export as an image. If you want to export an area
larger than your initial selection, then draw a rectangle around the area
that you're after, send it the back (Shape/Order/Send to back) and then
'Save As' as above. Note that if nothing is selected when you save as an
image format, an area covering all of the shapes on the page will be
exported.

As a final option, if you're refering to 'cropping' the page itself then you
can hover the mouse over the page edges, press the ctrl key and drag the
page to the size you're after.

There, hopefully one of those will answer your question

Best regards

John


John Goldsmith
www.visualSignals.co.uk