Visio® 2007 For Dummies®

Chapter 3. Printing Visio Drawings

In This Chapter

• Discovering how Visio “thinks” about printing

• Adjusting the orientation and page size

• Looking at your drawing before you print

• Printing your drawing

• Adding headers, footers, and gridlines

• Printing part of a drawing

• Reducing and enlarging your drawing

• Using online printing for custom or large tasks

• Marking shapes you don't want to print

• Printing comments

• Printing backgrounds and layers

For the most part, printing in Visio is a breeze — not much different from printing from any other Windows application. If your drawing doesn't vary from the template, without any major changes to the page size or orientation, you can often just click Print and get exactly the results you expect. However, sometimes your drawings won't be this straightforward. What if your drawing is larger than the paper? What if it's small and you want it to fill the page? What if your drawing is wider than it is tall, and it won't fit on standard paper? In this chapter, you find the answers to these questions and discover what you need to know to print all kinds of drawings (or selected portions of drawings) successfully.

Understanding How Visio Prints

The most important concept to keep in mind when printing with Visio is that the printer paper size and the drawing page size are independent of one another. The printer paper size refers to the paper you use in your printer. The drawing page size refers to the paper you see represented in white (usually shown with gridlines) in ...