You are all generous with good advice and tips. I'm especially intrigued by the idea of Blend 3 becoming more of a design tool. Thank you for the kind help,
Michael On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Stewart Dean <stewd...@gmail.com> wrote: > In Visio the easiest way to zoom in and out is to use a wheel mouse. > Press Control then move the wheel to zoom in and out. > > Press shift to pan left and right. > > Visio's layers are a joke. Instead it's better to use multiple layers of > backgrounds. Backgrounds can use different backgrounds and, with a little > patience, can be used as layers. You can't turn these on and off when needed > though. > > I have never used any of the shapes in Visio (well maybe a mouse pointer > once or twice). Instead I have a library built up from others libraries and > my own items - once mastered Visio's masters are quite powerful (if not > entirely free of bugs). > > There is much wrong with Visio - no merging documents, not paste in place, > lots of annoying bugs and needless features. Having used both Omnigraffle > and Visio in anger I feel both have major short comings but, under pressure, > I find Visio twice as quick to use. The perfect user experience tool has yet > to be built. > -- > Stewart Dean > -- Michael Micheletti michael.michele...@gmail.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
