East Asian text is repositioned incorrectly in a printed Word 2003 document after you adjust the size of Visio 2003 object in the document (827865)

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256986 Description of the Microsoft Windows Registry

SYMPTOMS

If the following conditions are true

You insert a Microsoft Office Visio 2003 object that contains East Asian text in a Microsoft Office Word 2003 document.

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You adjust the size of the Visio 2003 object in the Word 2003 document.

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You print the Word 2003 document with Adobe Acrobat Distiller.

the text of the Visio object is repositioned incorrectly in the Word 2003 document. The text is separated from the drawing portion of the Visio 2003 object and appears outside the Visio 2003 object.

CAUSE

This problem may occur if the printer driver does not support metafiles that use the EMFPlus format. When you insert a Visio 2003 object in a Word 2003 document, the Visio 2003 object appears in the document in the Enhanced Metafile (EMF) format. The metafile format that is used for printing is the same format that is used to display the Visio 2003 object. By default, Visio 2003 uses the EMFPlus format for the metafile.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest PostScript printer driver, as appropriate to your language version of Microsoft Windows.

For information about how to contact Adobe or your printer manufacturer, click the appropriate article number in the following list to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

65416 Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, A-K

60781 Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, L-P

60782 Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, Q-Z

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, add the MetafileTypeForPasteAndOLE value to the following registry key, and then set the value to 2:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Visio\Application

WARNING: If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

Click Start, and then click Run.
In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
Locate, and then click the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Visio\Application
On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
Type MetafileTypeForPasteAndOLE, and then press ENTER.
On the Edit menu, click Modify.
In the Value data box, type 2, and then click OK.

Note You can set the MetafileTypeForPasteAndOLE registry entry to any one of the following values, as appropriate to your situation:
- 0 (zero): Visio 2003 uses the EMFDual format for the metafile. This is the default value.
- 1: Visio 2003 uses the EMFPlus format for the metafile.
- 2: Visio 2003 uses the EMF format for the metafile.
In this situation, you configure Visio 2003 to use the EMF format for the metafile when you set the MetafileTypeForPasteAndOLE value to 2.
Quit Registry Editor.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information about Microsoft Visio, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/visio

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