Copy/Paste doesn't work correctly

[Ramon de Klein]

I use MS Office 97 and Visio 2000 at work. Whenever I copy a (simple)
flowchart from Visio 2000 to MS Office then the image is distorted.
Lines have the wrong style (normal instead of dotted), solid
backgrounds become transparent, ... At home I use MS Office 2003 with
Visio 2002 and to my surprise I have the same problems. To make sure
that the problem isn't in the Word document or Visio drawing I started
from scratch, but still no luck.

I tried everything, but even pasting it as WMF/EMF doesn't help. Only
the Device Independant Bitmap seems to work fine, but this doesn't
look very good in printed material.

What could be the problem? I have checked the newsgroups and found out
that more people have this problem. We have payed a lot for Visio and
it's a great piece of software, but such a simple thing like
copy/paste should work to make it usable. What could be the problem?

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

There are some types of objects that cannot be displayed properly when an
image is embedded into another document. Dashed lines must be broken into
thousands of individual line segments, which would result in a very large
file size. Visio 2000 and Visio 2002 will convert the lines to solid to
prevent that from happening. Visio 2003 does the same thing, except that we
increased the threshold to allow more dashes in a line before it gets
changed to solid.