Visio - printable grid lines

[Guest]

It would be nice to be able to print gridlines on some vision drawings. We
often pass around visio drawing for comments - it would be nice to have the
option of print faint gray or blue gridlines in the background to aid the
handwritten changes and additions.

I would suggest adding a layer option (allows all layer controls such as
colors print/show etc) with a user definable grid size.

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

In Visio 2003, the grid lines are printable. In previous versions the work
around was to create background page that had lines to represent the grid
pattern.

John... Visio MVP

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[-> Dave]

John,

Thanks for the info. I just found the option - I had not even looked for it
in 2003 because since I upgraded I've only done a few dwgs. I will try it
later today and see how it actually prints.

Thanks again!


I was still using the work around as you described - it actually might still
work better because you can define the grid better as well as the color and
transparency.