Visio/Word Integration Bug?

[Jim]

I am running Visio 2003 SP1 and Word 2002 SP3. I created my diagram with
Visio on a 'D' size sheet. I used the rectangle tool to put dashed boxes
around certain parts of the diagram. I copied the diagram, just the diagram
not the whole sheet, into a Word document, and poof, the dashed lines turned
into solid lines. I've found that if the rectangle is equal to or great than
5.25 inches wide (scaled) it turns solid. If it is less than it goes back to
dashed.

Anyone have an idea why Word acts this way? Is it a scaling issue with the
Visio interface into Word?

Jim

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

This could be a limitation imposed by Visio. The underlying problem is that
the Windows rendering surface does not provide native support for dashed
lines. This means that when Visio pastes into Word, it has to describe the
dashed lines as a million little line pieces. We put a limit on the number
of line segments we will create and beyond that the lines show up as solid.