Printing Visio Drawings
There are several ways to print your drawing and several options for printing. Visio is a what you see is what you get style application – the goal is to have what you create on screen come out that way in a print out. It would do you no good if what you saw on the screen was different in a presentation and a print out, so for the most part, you don’t need to do much to get a nice looking print out of your drawing.
Page Setup Options
Page setup allows you to control the options available when printing a drawing. There are several tabs of options available to change how the printed copy of your drawing will look.
- Click on the File menu.
- Click on Page Setup.
- The Page Setup dialog box opens.
- On the first tab, you can change the printer paper and the zoom of the drawing to print.
- On the second tab, Page Size, you can change the page size to be the same or different than the paper you are printing on.
- On the Drawing Scale tab, you can select a scale for your Visio drawing. This is handy for architectural or product specification drawings.
- On the Page Properties tab, you can change the properties of the individual page in Visio.
- On the Layout and Routing tab, you can change how connectors are routed in your drawing.
- Finally, the Shadows tab allows you to apply a shadow to your drawing.
Now that you’ve made changes to the page setup options, you’re ready to preview your print out.
Print Preview
Once you’re ready to print, use Print Preview to see how it’s going to look before you send it to the printer. Select the File menu and select Print Preview.
Printing Your Drawing
Now that you’ve controlled all of the settings and looked at the preview of how your drawing will look, you are ready to print it! It’s fairly simple to print your document. Select the File menu and select Print. Your print options for your printer will come up. Click OK when you’re ready to print the drawing.
You’re finished with the free Microsoft Visio 2007 tutorial!
Microsoft Visio 2007 Tutorial
Congratulations! You have completed the free Microsoft Visio 2007 Tutorial from Learnthat.com. In this tutorial, you learned a variety of ways you can use Microsoft Visio to accomplish complex drawings for your business or personal life. Visio is a great tool for diagramming and you’ve learned how to best use the tool to accomplish its purpose.
