Printing multiple sheets

[Ray Craig]

I've created 1 file in Visio. This file has 40 separate pages (slides).
Each page has its own flowchat, but each page is hyperlinked to an adjacent
page with a subsequent, dependent flowchart. Is there a way to print all the
pages out on one sheet of paper as a large interconnected grand flowchart?
Wording it another way: can all the subsets (flowchart children) be printed
as a family tree? I realize this will likely result in very small font, and
that is ok. I also realize this may require some indirect cut and paste or
some other work-around to accomplish this. In a perfect world, I would print
this out on a "plotter" on a sheet of paper about 3 feet by 6 feet in size.

 

[David Parker]

I think that you may need to literally cut'n'paste...
Alternatively, you can save each page as a wmf or emf file, then create a
new large page and insert each image onto it in the relative position.
With some coding, you could probably automate that process, and have a
hyperlink from the image to the relevant page.

 

[John Goldsmith]

Hello Ray,

'Print' pages and 'Drawing' pages have different setups so you could have
everything on a single drawing page and either have a single enormous sheet
of paper given a decent plotter or set the Printer page to split over a
certain number of pages. So for example File/Page Setup/'Page size' as Size
to fit drawing contents and then Print setup as fit to n by n pages. (One
note is that if you have very intensive shapes you may find that there is a
performance hit if you have everything on a single page and also a very
large page size will also effect the zoom level. You might want to consider
progamatically assembling a single print page each time if this becomes a
significant issue.)

In terms of 'family tree' you could draw on the connecting lines on a
specific layer that you could turn on or off depending on your requirements.

Take a look at the following Layers link that may help:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa217451(office.10).aspx

Best regards

John


John Goldsmith
www.visualSignals.co.uk