Microsoft KB Archive/321875

= Description of the problems that occur when you view, edit, or print Visio 2002 drawing that contains Asian characters =

Article ID: 321875

Article Last Modified on 7/27/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visio 2002 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visio 2002 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Windows XP Professional

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This article was previously published under Q321875



SYMPTOMS
When you work in a diagram that contains Asian characters, and you are running Microsoft Windows XP, you may experience one or more of the following symptoms:
 * Some characters are printed as &quot;=&quot; when you print from the Japanese version of Visio 2002 to Acrobat Distiller.
 * Hong Kong Simplified Complex Script support is not available in Visio 2002.
 * When you use the ClearType text display setting in Visio 2000 Service Release 1 (SR-1), the text appears distorted.



RESOLUTION
The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

x86: Download the Q318966 package now

Itanium 64-bit: Download the Q318966 package now

Release Date: April 16, 2002

For additional information about how to download Microsoft Support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

119591 How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

Microsoft scanned this file for viruses. Microsoft used the most current virus-detection software that was available on the date that the file was posted. The file is stored on security-enhanced servers that help to prevent any unauthorized changes to the file. NOTE: After you apply this update, you must restart your computer.

The English version of this fix has the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.

  Date         Time   Version     Size       File name    Platform --  15-MAR-2002  00:17  5.1.3100.0  1,716,224  Gdiplus.dll  i386 26-MAR-2002 21:04  5.1.3100.0  5,256,192  Gdiplus.dll  Itanium 64-bit



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about this particular Windows XP patch, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

318966 Problems Viewing, Editing, or Printing Some Images in Windows XP

For additional information about Visio 2002 SR-1, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

310474 Visio2002: How to Obtain and Install Visio 2002 Service Release 1

310463 Visio2002: List of Issues Fixed in Visio 2002 Service Release 1 (SR-1)

For additional information about language-specific versions of Visio, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

293138 Visio: Language Versions Available for Microsoft Visio

Additional query words: visio2002 vso2002 prb qfe hotfix japan character kanji hiragana katakana multilingual asian multilanguage bi-direction bi-di SR-1 SR1

Keywords: kbtshoot kbbug kbenv kbfile kbfix kbprint KB321875

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