RE: Visio - Complex Flow Chart

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

Try this.

Create a new master page and define it BIG...way bigger than the document to
be printed...give yourself some working room. On that master page, place the
level one diagram. maybe on the left side, but not so far left that you have
no working room all around it.

To the right, copy the second level and place it to the right of the first
level and draw a line from the box 1.2.1 to the box 1.2.1 of the second
level page.

To the right of the level two content, place the level three content in an
array, but give yourself room. To the right of each level three content,
array the level four that connect to each level three...continue this to the
end.

Now, there are two trick:

1) To make sure you retain relationships not only between each level to it's
immediate child, but to also retain the relationships between the parent of
one, to the children of other parents

2) Now that you have everything on one page, you will notice redundant
elements; an element on level 3 also appears on level 5. For clarity, it is
important that you only have an element represented once, regardless of the
fact that it appears in multiple levels.

Now that you have everything technically correct, your task is to bring
everything toward the center until you are within the plotter size, and to
move things around so the lines between Point A and Point B are as short as
possible and with as few crossovers as possible.

Now, add a little color, make different lines weights, and
shazzaammm...instant wall art.

Oh, BTW...give yourself about a week to do this.

Good luck and let me know if you have questions. I work with wall-size
Visios all day.

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com
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-----Original Message-----
From: mcollier -at- maryland -dot- com [mailto:mcollier -at- maryland -dot- com]
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 3:12 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Visio - Complex Flow Chart

I received twelve pages of Visio flow charts from an engineer who wants it
all printed out onto one page from a plotter.

The first page is a master page, and the successive pages show the
"children" of a labeled box on the master page. For example, on the master

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