How to Make Pages AND Background Fit on Paper?

[Davy]

I have a three-page Visio 2000 diagram; one page is background. As usual,
when I had finished developing it, it did not fit on the paper (even if it
did then it still would not be central).

Below is what I had to do to print a page on a single sheet of paper:
1 In Page Setup. Set printer paper size for all pages
2 Find the page with the largest area, on Page Setup click match printer.
Change scale until all items fit on page.
3 For all other pages, including background, change scale to same as 2
4 On background page - click centre drawing
5 For each other page - select all then move into alignment with background

This is ridiculous. Surely there is a better way of doing this? I have the
'professional' edition which appears to be anything but.

cheers, Davy

 

[Chris [Visio MVP]]

I don't totally understand what the problem is, but I think it's similar to
a problem I recently had.

Visio has a weakness, where if foreground pages have different sizes, then a
single background page doesn't work very well.

I ended up making a titleblock shape, putting it on a locked layer, and
dropping it on every page. I got rid of the background page altogether.

 

[Michel LAPLANE]

The printing have been greatly enhanced in visio 2003. So first of all
migrate to 2003.

After that, if you have page of different size and you want background on
each page, you must design several background page (one for each size) and
select the appropriate background for each page with the property page tab
of the page setup menu.

your printing will be good.