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Bas YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 36 Joined: Apr 14^th, 2006	Picture dimensions change after export to Visio Apr 18^th, 2006 at 10:34am	Print Post
	Lets assume I have a transparent box (46, 46), with white as the framecolor. Now I put a picture inside it with Box.LoadPicture. So the actual box is not shown, just the picture inside it. Now I export the whole thing to Visio. I notice that the picture in the Visio drawing is slightly disformed because the height (and I think the width as well) are changed. When the import takes place, obviously it looks a bit different. Is it possible to make the pictures not loose their original dimensions? Another thing, If I use the same (original) box, and resize it to 200x200, with the picture centered (thus not resized) and export it to Visio, the picture is resized to the new box dimensions (200x200). Is it possible to leave the picture at its original dimensions?


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Bas YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 36 Joined: Apr 14^th, 2006	Re: Picture dimensions change after export to Visi Reply #1 - Apr 18^th, 2006 at 10:57am	Print Post
	One more note, when the box is set to BoxStyle = bsShape, the pictures inside are not rotated when the box is rotated.


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Picture dimensions change after export to Visi Reply #2 - Apr 18^th, 2006 at 11:15am	Print Post
	Hi, Visio cannot display images inside shapes as far as we know, but supports rectangular Picture objects (insert\picture menu item). If the exporter sees a Picture assigned to a box, it does not create a Visio shape for that box but creates a Picture object whose dimensions are the same as the bounding rectangle of the box. The PicturePos is not considered in that case. You might get better results when exporting by creating a group of a shape box and a picture box in FlowChartX. Then in Visio both the shape and the image should be visible and the image should have correct size. Stoyan


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Bas YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 36 Joined: Apr 14^th, 2006	Re: Picture dimensions change after export to Visi Reply #3 - Apr 18^th, 2006 at 11:27am	Print Post
	I just went over Visio 2003 a couple of hours ago and have come to the same conclusion as you have.. no pictures inside shapes. Wierd isnt it? If the PicturePos property would be set to picFit or picStretch I could understand that it would be sized to the box bounderies. But in case of picCenter I think it would be better behaviour to not touch the dimensions of the picture.


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Bas YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 36 Joined: Apr 14^th, 2006	Re: Picture dimensions change after export to Visi Reply #4 - Apr 18^th, 2006 at 11:34am	Print Post
	Btw, what about that rotating.. any idea on how to get that working?


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Picture dimensions change after export to Visi Reply #5 - Apr 18^th, 2006 at 1:24pm	Print Post
	We will add an ExportImagesAsGroups property that will create a Visio group of a shape and a Picture for each Box that displays an image, preserving the PicturePos alignment. A client requested this feature just last week for the Flowchart.NET to Visio exporter, so I guess it will a popular one 8)


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Bas YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 36 Joined: Apr 14^th, 2006	Re: Picture dimensions change after export to Visi Reply #6 - Apr 18^th, 2006 at 3:45pm	Print Post
	Nice! I assume that this feature will also be implemented in the non .NET version?


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Picture dimensions change after export to Visi Reply #7 - Apr 18^th, 2006 at 4:18pm	Print Post
	Yes, it will be available in both ActiveX and .NET versions.


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Bas YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 36 Joined: Apr 14^th, 2006	Re: Picture dimensions change after export to Visi Reply #8 - May 23^rd, 2006 at 7:25am	Print Post
	Any news on the "group boxes & images when exporting to visio" feature?


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Picture dimensions change after export to Visi Reply #9 - May 23^rd, 2006 at 1:03pm	Print Post
	nothing yet, sorry


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