Cropping Country

[Linda Adams]

I'm working on a map of the world, and one of the countries is partially off
the page. In PowerPoint, if something like that happens, I just use the crop
tool to crop the excess. Is this possible in Visio?

Thanks!

 

[Chris Roth [MVP]]

Hi Linda,

Visio only supports cropping for "Foreign objects" (stop rolling your eyes)

That means only bitmaps, metafiles, etc. If you want, you could copy your
whole map, then Edit > Paste Special > Paste as metafile. Then you'll be
able to crop it, but it won't have Visio shape behavior anymore. Plusses and
minusses for this suggestion...

--
Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

Free Visio shapes:
http://www.visguy.com/category/shapes
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[J Kallay]

You could also ignore the problem, since whatever is off the page won't get
printed, you could resize your drawing page, or you could use Fragment to
crop the shape.

Hi Linda,

Visio only supports cropping for "Foreign objects" (stop rolling your
eyes)

That means only bitmaps, metafiles, etc. If you want, you could copy your
whole map, then Edit > Paste Special > Paste as metafile. Then you'll be
able to crop it, but it won't have Visio shape behavior anymore. Plusses
and minusses for this suggestion...

--
Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

Free Visio shapes:
http://www.visguy.com/category/shapes
Visio programming info:
http://www.visguy.com/category/programming/
Other Visio resources:
http://www.visguy.com/visio-links/

 

[Linda Adams]

I did try Fragment and had a general lack of success. It tended to freeze up
my computer, and when it did work, it simply changed the image to an outline.


--
Linda Adams
http://www.hackman-adams.com
http://www.david-hedison.com

You could also ignore the problem, since whatever is off the page won't get
printed, you could resize your drawing page, or you could use Fragment to
crop the shape.

 

[J Kallay]

If you draw a line segment across the shape where you want it cropped,
select the line segment and the shape, and then do Fragment, then your shape
will get broken in two where the line segment intersected it. You can then
delete the part you don't want. Any special properties of the shape will be
lost as a result of the Fragment operation(including formatting), but if
it's a country shape I assume that's not a big deal.

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

Fragment on a shape as complex as a country could be quite processor /
memory intensive.

--
Mark Nelson
Office Graphics - Visio
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

If you draw a line segment across the shape where you want it cropped,
select the line segment and the shape, and then do Fragment, then your
shape will get broken in two where the line segment intersected it. You
can then delete the part you don't want. Any special properties of the
shape will be lost as a result of the Fragment operation(including
formatting), but if it's a country shape I assume that's not a big deal.

I did try Fragment and had a general lack of success. It tended to freeze
up
my computer, and when it did work, it simply changed the image to an
outline.


--
Linda Adams
http://www.hackman-adams.com
http://www.david-hedison.com

You could also ignore the problem, since whatever is off the page won't
get
printed, you could resize your drawing page, or you could use Fragment
to
crop the shape.
"Chris Roth [MVP]" <visioguy [at] hotmail [dot] com> wrote in message
Hi Linda,

Visio only supports cropping for "Foreign objects" (stop rolling your
eyes)

That means only bitmaps, metafiles, etc. If you want, you could copy
your
whole map, then Edit > Paste Special > Paste as metafile. Then you'll
be
able to crop it, but it won't have Visio shape behavior anymore.
Plusses
and minusses for this suggestion...

--
Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

Free Visio shapes:
http://www.visguy.com/category/shapes
Visio programming info:
http://www.visguy.com/category/programming/
Other Visio resources:
http://www.visguy.com/visio-links/

I'm working on a map of the world, and one of the countries is
partially
off
the page. In PowerPoint, if something like that happens, I just use
the
crop
tool to crop the excess. Is this possible in Visio?

Thanks!