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Subject:Re: Word solidifies dashed lines in Visio objects From:Tom Murrell <trmurrell -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 21 Jan 2003 07:55:41 -0800 (PST)
--- DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com wrote:
>
> Has anyone seen this one before? A drawing created in Visio has rectangles
> with dashed lines (Pattern 16 in Visio). When the Visio drawing is
> embedded in a Word document, those lines become solid, both on the monitor
> and on the printed page. But when the Visio object is opened from Word,
> the lines still show up dashed.
That sounds like something that would happen in the drawing being compressed into
the Word document. Is the Visio going into a smaller space than it would if you just
printed the drawing without first putting it in a Word doc?
Also, have you tried printing the drawing from Visio?
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