Zoom problem in Visio 2003

[Jeremy Davis]

In creating a special document that is 7800" x 11" (yes, that's 7,800
inches wide by 11" high), I can only zoom in 4%. How can I zoom in
more? Thanks in advance!

Jeremy

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

Welcome to the world of 16-bit graphics! While the computing world has
moved on to 32-bit everything, Visio still uses a 16-bit graphics surface.
This was required for supporting Win9x platforms, but we have not upgraded
the drawing surface to take advantage of the superior graphic engines in
Windows 2000 and XP. The net result is that zooming gets restricted as the
size of the page increases. My best suggestion is to use multiple pages for
your drawing.

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

Out of curiosity, why is your drawing two hundred yards by one foot long?

John... Visio MVP

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[Jeremy Davis]

I'm creating a Christian bible timeline from the year 4026 BCE to 2004
CE with 1 year increments, so that it can be printed on US Letter
paper. This is a big undertaking on my part. Visio is the closet prog
that I can find to do this, short of creating a raster pic that's
about 100MB.

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

Makes sense.

Since it has to be broken every eleven inches for page breaks, you could
consider segmenting the file so that different sections are on different
Visio pages. With a 100MB file, you may want to put the different segments
in different Visio files.

John... Visio MVP

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