Question about automatic alignment of images pasted into Visio 200

[eggsnhm]

I want to paste an image from another app. into Visio2003. I want it to
automatically snap to the top-left corner of the printable area of the grid.
I want to copy & past a second image (aligned both vertically & horizontally)
parallel to the first, with half an inch of white space between them. How
can I do this?

 

[J Kallay]

Are you asking how to get shapes to align in a certain way through the Visio
UI, or how to do it using automation? If it's the latter, you'd be better
off asking the question in the visio.developer or visio.developer.vba group.

 

[eggsnhm]

Thanks for the response J, but neither. I have a very long table of contents
from a compiled help file (.CHM) and I'm taking screen shots of the whole
thing, because there is no way to print-out the TOC structure from w/ a CHM.
However, in an effort to save paper, I want to get 2 columns' worth of data
onto a single page with a Landscape orientation.

Here's my current procedure:
1) Copy TOC pane from CHM
2) Paste into Visio. -- By default, Visio places the pasted image smack in
the middle of the desginated print area.
3) I drag the image to the up and left.
4) I copy the second portion of the TOC from the CHM
5) I paste it into Vistio, again, it's smack in the middle of the page.
6) I use Shapes > Align to align the tops of the images
7) I drag the second image right, & still need to mannuallymake sure there
is half an inch of space between them, because having changed the settings
for automatic spacing to 1/2" seems to have no effect on what I paste in,
only on what I pull from the Shapes pane.

What I *want* is to be able to configure the default location for images
pasted into Visio from outside of Visio.

Thanks.

 

[Paul Herber]

Thanks for the response J, but neither. I have a very long table of contents
from a compiled help file (.CHM) and I'm taking screen shots of the whole
thing, because there is no way to print-out the TOC structure from w/ a CHM.

..chm files can be decoded quite easily to text and html files. Google
for it.
Been there, done it, it works.

 

[eggsnhm]

Thanks much.

..chm files can be decoded quite easily to text and html files. Google
for it.
Been there, done it, it works.

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

One thing to consider is creating a file folder of the images and then by
using some VBA code, import the images into Visio, adjusting the location as
you go through the folder.

visio.mvps.org/VBA.htm has some examples of VBA code of looping through a
folder and positioning shapes. A combination of the code for "Convert CGM to
Stencil" and "Stencil Printout" should give you the code you need.

John... Visio MVP

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