visio 5 templates not opening properly in visio 2003

[andrew]

I am loosing most of my formating when opening Visio 5 templates in Visio
2003, anyone come across this and know a fix?

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

Which drawing type do you see this with? Do you get any conversion message
when you open the files?

 

[andrew]

Hi Mark, thanks for your reply, let me expand on the problem. We are in the
process of upgrading from Visio 5.0 to Visio 2003. Our test users are
opening Visio 5 documents without any conversion messages, they display fine
until viewed under print preview which appears blanck, also when printer the
page is blank. I changed the default printer to a few different ones with the
same result. If the document is copied and pasted into a new document it is
fine. According to Microsofts sales pitch Visio 2003 is compatable with all
previous versions, it would apear not.The other problem is a number of the
Visio 5 files when opened in Visio 2003, the font size changes and a number
of the opject change from squares to diamonds.

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

I have not encountered the blank page issue before. However, if you have
not done so, please install Service Pack 1 for Visio 2003. That addresses
several printing issues, so there is a chance that this solves the problem.

The other thing to verify is that shapes are not on a Layer marked as
non-printing, or that individual shapes are not marked as non-printing.
This would narrow down the problem to a printing issue or a file conversion
issue.

As for the object changes, are these shapes that are changing from squares
to diamonds or are these selection handles? Somewhere between Visio 5 and
Visio 2003, the control handles changed from green squares to yellow
diamonds. They still have the same functionality.

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Mark Nelson
Microsoft Corporation

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