Microsoft KB Archive/931281

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Article ID: 931281

Article Last Modified on 9/11/2007



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2003
  • Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2003



INTRODUCTION

Microsoft has released security bulletin MS07-030. The security bulletin contains all the relevant information about the security update for Microsoft Office Visio 2003. This information includes file manifest information and deployment options. To view the complete security bulletin, visit one of the following Microsoft Web sites, depending on whether you are a home user or an IT professional:


Issues that the security update fixes

This security update fixes the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

909912 Description of the Visio 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: March 24, 2006


921209 Description of the Visio 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: August 1, 2006


925904 Description of the Visio 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: November 14, 2006


928673 Description of the Visio 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: January 8, 2007


Known issues

You may experience one of the following known issues when you try to work with an AutoCAD 2000 .dwg file or an AutoCAD 2000 .dxf file in Visio 2003:

  • You have an AutoCAD 2000 .dwg file that was saved in AutoCAD 2007 or in AutoCAD 2008. When you try to open or to insert the .dwg file in Visio 2003, you may receive one of the following error messages:

    Error message 1

    Runtime Error!

    Program: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Visio11\Visio.exe

    abnormal program termination

    Error message 2

    Microsoft Office Visio has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

    To work around this problem, save the AutoCAD .dwg file in AutoCAD 14 .dwg format instead of in AutoCAD 2000 .dwg format.
  • You have an AutoCAD 2000 .dxf file that was saved in AutoCAD 2007 or in AutoCAD 2008. When you try to open or to insert the .dxf file in Visio 2003, Visio may stop responding (hang). Or, you may receive the following error message:

    Microsoft Visio has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

    To work around this problem, save the AutoCAD .dxf file in AutoCAD 12 .dxf format instead of in AutoCAD 2000 .dxf format.



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