Microsoft KB Archive/264461

= Visio2000: Drawing Is Cropped When You Save a CAD Drawing as a JPEG File =

Article ID: 264461

Article Last Modified on 1/27/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visio 2000 Technical Edition

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This article was previously published under Q264461



SYMPTOMS
In Visio 2000 Technical Edition, when you save a CAD drawing as a JPEG file, Visio may crop the drawing.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain Microsoft Visio 2000 Service Release 1 (SR-1).

To obtain SR-1, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

263721 Visio: How to Obtain Microsoft Visio 2000 Service Release 1 (SR-1)



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Visio 2000 SR-1.



Steps to Reproduce the Behavior

 * 1) Start Visio 2000 Technical Edition.
 * 2) On the File menu, click Open.
 * 3) In the Files of type box, click AutoCAD Drawing, and then select the Resunit.dwg file in the \Program Files\Visio\Samples\Visio Extras folder.
 * 4) In the CAD Drawing Scale box, click Custom Scale, and use a scale of 1 in. = 50 in.
 * 5) Click Page Setup, click Landscape, and then click OK.
 * 6) Click to clear the Lock Position check box, and then click OK.
 * 7) On the File menu, click SaveAs.
 * 8) In the Save as type box, click JPEG Format, name the drawing, and then click OK.
 * 9) View the resulting JPEG file in Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Note that the drawing is cropped. This cropping does not happen when you save a Visio shape as a JPEG file.

Additional query words: prb SR1 cut off chopped trimmed pruned pared clipped

Keywords: KB264461

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