Need to stretch and crop a grouped drawing

[New2Macros]

I imported a WMF image (it's a floorplan), and want to crop it and stretch it
to fit a particular background. I don't want to ungroup it, as that takes
quit a while since it's so detailed. Any ideas?

 

[John Goldsmith_Visio_MVP]

Hi there,

Cropping should be an option on the Picture toolbar that appears when you
select the shape. As for stretching (and I'm assuming you mean some level
of zooming) then you could play with the multiplier value in the
ImgWidth/Height cells in the ShapeSheet. Have a look at the first part of
this post for information on the ShapeSheet if you haven't come across it
before:

http://visualsignals.typepad.co.uk/vislog/2007/10/just-for-starte.html

Once you've selected you shape and opened the ShapeSheet, you're looking for
the ImgWidth and ImgHeight cells in the 'Foreign Image Info' section. Try
changing them to Width*1.5 and Height*1.5 respectively to see the effect.

Hope that helps.

Best regards

John


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