How can I see color while in Visio?

[Jeff]

I cannot see color while working in Visio (2003 Professional). If I copy and
paste the drawing in MS Word or PowerPoint - I can see the drawing colors
fine. Spent a lot of time online in the microsoft maze of "support" and
combing through the Visio help fiels - but cannot find anything that
addresses this problem.

Does anyone know how to enable visio to show me colors? (shape fill colors,
line colors....)

Thanks!

 

[JCSiadal]

I have the same issue and I've noticed other posts describing exactly the
same problem.

Visio 2003 will not display color in the drawing window. I've tried numerous
settings to both Visio and my display adapter (Mobile Radeon on a ThinkPad
A30p), but nothing has worked. Color can be applied and it imports and
exports correctly--it simply won't display.

Visio 2002 worked fine. Unfortunately, my company is site-licensed for the
product and we're stuck with in-house support, otherwise I'd call MS directly
and have them fix this bug. Since every other product I use (and there are
lots of graphic apps) works, I suspect Microsoft screwed up the Visio 2003
interface to the GDI and it affects specific graphic chipsets.

Anyone else with this color display problem, please reply with the video
adapter that you use.

Thanks,

Jeremy

 

[JCSiadal]

Replying to my own post here with more information:

Visio 2003 Pro SP1 is running on WinXP SP2 with all updates applied.
All drivers are the latest available from IBM.
I have a CAD program that also uses GDI+ and it has no problems (other than
I can't use my OpenType and PS fonts).

I'm experiencing the following symptoms:

1) Nothing on a worksheet will display in color. All fills, regardless of
color (inc. black) or pattern, appear white. All lines appear black.
2) Shadows show up as a black outline with no fill
3) All lines under 1 pt show up as 1 pt width.
4) Shapes are in color while being drawn. As soon as the shape is completed,
it changes to black and white.
5) Shapes in preview windows (like the transparency preview) display
correctly.

Anyone have any clues to fix this?

Thanks,

J-

 

[officegofor]

I applied the remedy published on microsoft support.com.
Article ID: 320531 which is basically:

Click START, click CONTROL PANEL and then click ACCESSIBILITY
OPTIONS.

Click the DISPLAY tab and then click to clear the USE HIGH CONTRAST
check box.

Click OK to close the ACCESSIBILITY OPTIONS dialog box.

I had this problem while running Visio on a Sony VAIO VGN-B1XP
notebook.

Officegofor