Printing tiled pages in Visio 2003 vs 2007

[CreativeGuy]

I just upgraded from 2003 to 2007 and am having a problem printing long pages
onto multiple sheets of paper. It appears that 2003 sets the print origin at
the top left of the page (where I'd expect it to be), while 2007 sets the
print origin at the bottom left. So if I have a long drawing that would fit
on 1.5 sheets of paper vertically, 2003 starts the drawing at the top of the
first sheet (where it should), but 2007 starts the drawing at the bottom of
the 2nd sheet, so the first page of my document is now half blank.

The easiest way to visualize the change is to create a new document that is
taller than 1 sheet of paper and then turn on "View>Page Breaks". 2003 shows
the break at the bottom third of the page while 2007 shows the break at the
top third of the page.

This change in 2007 is completely unintuitive. Why would anyone want to
start printing a drawing at the bottom? I've looked everywhere and can't find
a setting to force printing to being at the top of the first sheet. I've
experimented with 2007 on different computers so it isn't a bad install.
Anyone have an idea? This is very frustrating.

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

I'm not sure what might be causing this result. There was no change between
Visio 2003 and 2007 in terms of origin.

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Office Graphics - Visio
Microsoft Corporation

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[CreativeGuy]

Give it a try in 2003 and 2007 and you'll see that something did indeed
change. If MS didn't intentionally change it then it sounds like a bug.

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

I did a check in 2007 and with Page Breaks turned on, I used the crtl key to
stretch the pages hieght. No matter which side I stretched, the lower left
was always a full page.

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[John Marshall, MVP]

Considering what Mark does for a living, I have a tendency to believe him.
He is one of the old timers on the Visio team. ;-)

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[Mark Nelson [MS]]

It's possible you are encountering a bug, but the problem you report doesn't
seem to occur universally. If you would like to send me a file that prints
fine from 2003 and incorrectly from 2007, I would be happy to investigate a
bit more. (Remove "online" from my e-mail address to contact)

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Mark Nelson
Office Graphics - Visio
Microsoft Corporation

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