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minithommo
Hi Guys,
This issue may not be specifically related to Visio or Word, however I
tried copying and pasting from other graphics programs and this did not
happen.
I have recently upgraded from a 15 inch 1400 x 1050 laptop to a 15.4
inch widescreen 1680 x 1050 laptop. Old my old laptop (and other
machines) I would create a drawing in Visio, select all (Ctrl-A), copy
(Ctrl-C), then jump into word and paste (Ctrl-V) and I have the drawing
in my word file, I can resize etc.
With my new laptop, when I complete the same procedure, the image comes
out distorted - that is, it has stretched the drawing horizontally, so
that it is wider than it should be. If I go into 'Format Picture' and
goto the 'Size' table when selecting the Visio Picture embedded in the
word file, the Size has changed.
An example - on a normal 4:3 monitor, i had an image in word that was:
11.48cm x 18.13cm and 91% for both width and height. If I paste the
exact same drawing into Word on my widescreen laptop, it goes to
13.28cm x 25.18cm and 91% for both width and height.
If you look at the ratio of the width and height of the two embedded
pictures, you see that the ratio of Width (second value) to Height of
the second embedded picture (which is the same picture mind you) is 1.2
times that of the original. This conincides exactly with the extra
'widescreen' pixel ratio that the new laptop has - i.e. 1680 x 1050 is
1.2 times wider than 1400 x 1050.
Obviously I can tweak the percentage widths in Word to fix this, but my
question is - why is this happening? It should not happen and it is
really quite annoying. Any one else seen this problem and know how to
fix it?
I have pasted from Irfanview (a Graphics Viewer) and Powerpoint - but
the same problem does not occur. It only seems to be Visio!!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Thommo
This issue may not be specifically related to Visio or Word, however I
tried copying and pasting from other graphics programs and this did not
happen.
I have recently upgraded from a 15 inch 1400 x 1050 laptop to a 15.4
inch widescreen 1680 x 1050 laptop. Old my old laptop (and other
machines) I would create a drawing in Visio, select all (Ctrl-A), copy
(Ctrl-C), then jump into word and paste (Ctrl-V) and I have the drawing
in my word file, I can resize etc.
With my new laptop, when I complete the same procedure, the image comes
out distorted - that is, it has stretched the drawing horizontally, so
that it is wider than it should be. If I go into 'Format Picture' and
goto the 'Size' table when selecting the Visio Picture embedded in the
word file, the Size has changed.
An example - on a normal 4:3 monitor, i had an image in word that was:
11.48cm x 18.13cm and 91% for both width and height. If I paste the
exact same drawing into Word on my widescreen laptop, it goes to
13.28cm x 25.18cm and 91% for both width and height.
If you look at the ratio of the width and height of the two embedded
pictures, you see that the ratio of Width (second value) to Height of
the second embedded picture (which is the same picture mind you) is 1.2
times that of the original. This conincides exactly with the extra
'widescreen' pixel ratio that the new laptop has - i.e. 1680 x 1050 is
1.2 times wider than 1400 x 1050.
Obviously I can tweak the percentage widths in Word to fix this, but my
question is - why is this happening? It should not happen and it is
really quite annoying. Any one else seen this problem and know how to
fix it?
I have pasted from Irfanview (a Graphics Viewer) and Powerpoint - but
the same problem does not occur. It only seems to be Visio!!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Thommo