Re: Text for Visio 2003 Stencil

It's not that I need less than 1pt. you can barely see 1pt on a small print 
out (8.5x11). But when creating a Large pic on Arch D or Arch C, it is 
readable, and an isntaller can see where the connections go.

The reason for Text that is less than 1 pt, is that if I grab a standard 
Rack from Shapes\Network\Rack-Mounted Equipment (US units). The standard Rack 
is too small for my equipment to fit in.

I can resize the shape that I created to fit into the Rack, but once it gets 
to that size the text does not line up with the rest of the drawing at 1 pt.

I can make the shape larger and the Text gets larger as the shape does.

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The shape that I saw created seemed to not use metafiles, as when I 
ungrouped the Shape to check the individual properties, the Text changed to 1 
pt and became a unreadable on that Shape as well.

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Maybe what I will try to do  is group each object on the shape individually, 
and name each object. The text for that object, if I understand this 
correctly should resize according to the object that the text is grouped with.

I will also try your idea with the Metafile to see if that will work for me 
as well.





"Chris [Visio MVP]" wrote:

> Hmm. I see the Shape*** will take a value of 0.25pt, for instance, but it 
> appears the text stays at 1pt.
> 
> One idea as to getting smaller font sizes is to convert the text to a 
> metafile. Perhaps the shapes you have seen already had this done. This only 
> makes sense if the user doesn't need to change the text - ie: it's a logo or 
> model name or something.
> 
> To get the metafile, copy the shape, then choose Edit > Paste Special, and 
> choose Enhanced Metafile.
> 
> Now your pasted-shape is a "dumb graphic" and will resize proportionally in 
> all respects.
> 
> 
> Is less-than-1pt text really useful to you???!!!
> 
> -- 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Chris Roth
> Visio MVP
> 
> 
> 
> "Richard Bushard" <RichardBushard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in 
> message news:2C944A09-5E1C-4B7F-BFB4-6144F0F08541@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >I have created about 6 templates, and would like to be able to have them 
> >fit
> > inside a rack.
> >
> > The problem I am having is, when I resize the shape to fit into a standard
> > rack. The text size is limited to 1 pt. Once the text reaches 1 pt the 
> > text
> > becomes unreadable and too large for the Stencil itself.
> >
> > If I expand it to a larger image the text resizes accordingly, when using
> > the formula =(Height/x.xxxx m) * x pt.
> >
> > Is there any formula I can use to allow the text to be smaller than 1pt.
> > Grouping the drawing doesn't seem to help.
> >
> > I have seen shapes which have this done, but going through the shape***, 
> > I
> > cannot figure out which formula allows this to happen.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> 
> 
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