Re: Line break in Visio 2003 / HTML export

From: Andy Howe [MS] (andyho_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/03/04 

Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 13:39:24 -0700

Yes, you can modify any of the pages, html, js, xml, whatever you want.

Thanks for explaining the issue in more detail. Unfortunately, I'm pretty
sure that there's no way to trick Visio into converting anything in the
custom properties. Sorry there's not a better way to do this. 

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Andy Howe
Microsoft Corporation
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"Marcus Moore" <nospam_mars_nospam@nospam_smocare_nospam.net> wrote in
message news:uXGEpw3LEHA.2704@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Thank you, Andy,
>
> putting spaces at the appropriate spaces isn't quite possible because
> you can adjust the width of the frame, right? So it will always display
> differently. You see I enter the custom properties through an add-on
> that allows for multiple lines of text input. After all, 64K is alot of
> data so why not use this space? What I then have are CR/LF control
> characters, of course these are not visible and will appear as line
> breaks in Visio. Now it would be nice if Visio could translate them
> correctly to <BR> tags when displayed in HTML! I hope you get my
> intention now, yes, it is somewhat smarter than what IE currently does.
>
> As what goes for the generated pages - so I can modify them any way I
> want, also the JS-files ? That would allow me to get it the way I want
> it but it's not exactly the most comfortable way. After every HTML
> export, a file would have to be replaced. Is there really no other way
> to make Visio do  this ?
>
>
> Andy Howe [MS] wrote:
> > Hi Marcus,
> >
> > Unfortunately, I don't know a way to do this from within Visio. Custom
> > properties are traditionally just one line of text. However, IE will
break
> > the text into multiple lines if there are spaces at the appropriate
> > locations. Are the lines not getting broken automatically for you? Or
are
> > you trying to do something a little smarter than what IE does?
> >
> > BTW, you can modify the web pages at any time after they're generated.
We
> > create the pages for you, but you can tweak them all you want.
> >

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