Visio2000: Drawing Is Cropped When You Save a CAD Drawing as a JPEG File (264461)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Visio 2000 Technical Edition
This article was previously published under Q264461

SYMPTOMS

In Visio 2000 Technical Edition, when you save a CAD drawing as a JPEG file, Visio may crop the drawing.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain Microsoft Visio 2000 Service Release 1 (SR-1).

To obtain SR-1, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

263721 Visio: How to Obtain Microsoft Visio 2000 Service Release 1 (SR-1)

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.  This problem was corrected in Microsoft Visio 2000 SR-1.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce the Behavior

  1. Start Visio 2000 Technical Edition.
  2. On the File menu, click Open.
  3. In the Files of type box, click AutoCAD Drawing, and then select the Resunit.dwg file in the \Program Files\Visio\Samples\Visio Extras folder.
  4. In the CAD Drawing Scale box, click Custom Scale, and use a scale of 1 in. = 50 in.
  5. Click Page Setup, click Landscape, and then click OK.
  6. Click to clear the Lock Position check box, and then click OK.
  7. On the File menu, click SaveAs.
  8. In the Save as type box, click JPEG Format, name the drawing, and then click OK.
  9. View the resulting JPEG file in Microsoft Internet Explorer.

    Note that the drawing is cropped. This cropping does not happen when you save a Visio shape as a JPEG file.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:11/4/2002
Keywords:KB264461
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