RE: Uses of Visio?

["Daniel Ng" <kjng -at- gprotechnologies -dot- com>]

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Try installing the Visio application again. 

This time, select the CUSTOM and be sure to select additional
templates/shapes/stencils that fir your need. This should fit and enrich
your and any tech writer or system analysts diagramming work bench.


Dan


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Lauriston [mailto:robert -at- lauriston -dot- com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:52 AM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Uses of Visio?

I was using 2003. They're not bugs, the program's meant to work that way.

Could be there was a more appropriate template for generic drawings that my
company hadn't purchased.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Dan Goldstein
<DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> wrote:
> Which version of Visio are you using? I've been using Visio 2003, and 
> I haven't experienced any of the four bugs you describe below.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Robert Lauriston
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:46 AM
>> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>> Subject: Re: Uses of Visio?
>>
>> When I want a simple diagram (e.g. a block diagram showing the 
>> relationship between and data flows among components in a 
>> client-server application), typically I've found that Visio won't let 
>> me simply do what I want. It won't let me draw the kind of arrow I 
>> want between two boxes, it won't make labels the size I want them to 
>> be, when I move one object it automatically rearranges the rest 
>> inappropriately, when I make any change to the drawing it resizes the 
>> page size back to the default, effectively shrinking the drawing in 
>> the linked OLE object in FrameMaker.


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