Mark Nelson said:
Are you referring to the shape icons that appear in the green stencil
window? Visio displays an X here if it has no icon for the shape. That
would be true if your shape only consists of embedded objects. You can
right click on the shape and choose Edit Icon to make your own. If you do
this, go into Master Properties on the right-click menu and turn off the
"Generate icon automatically..." setting.
No, the stencil/stencil icon graphic is fine. The problem is when I
use the actual stencil object into my drawing everything except the
two bmp images appear perfectly. The images are "X" out.
After experimenting with the inserted object in my drawing, by
ungrouping everything on the inserted object and moving the component
shapes so that I could isolate the images from the shapes, I made a
discovery that ultimately led me to a fix. Having isolated the images
from the shapes, I happened to resize one, making it larger, and
suddenly the image appeared. When I shrunk it back to where I needed
it to be in scale relation to the other shapes, it immediately
disappeared.
I'd like to understand why this phenomenon is observed when bringing
the object into another drawing, but not when I create or edit the
original object.
The fix I found was this: Initially I copied and pasted the images
from a paint/photo editor program, pasted them into the object
drawing, scaled to the size I needed, grouped all the shapes and
images, and finally copied them into a stencil. The only other method
of bringing a picture into a drawing is by using the "Insert" menu.
Once I used the insert menu method, the image could be sized to
anything I wanted and it never disappeared.
I'd really like to understand the difference between copy/paste and
insert.
Thanks!
Bill
