I, too, have been struggling with Visio, mostly around printing (it can't collate, for goodness sake!) and PDF generation (Visio and PDFMaker don't play nice).
So, inspired by this thread, I've been reviewing alternatives. I tried Balsamiq again at my boss's suggestion, but I'd be giving up too much of Visio's functionality to be efficient with it. Plus, it's just too unpleasant to look at ... a choice between Comic Sans and "system font" is not a choice. Then I took a look at Illustrator (and a promising open-source rival, Inkscape) when I realized: pages! Visio uses pages! These other illustration tools don't. Illustrator has "artboards," sure, but they're nowhere as easy as to manipulate (for a newbie, at least). Inkscape only works with one page per document. (I will, however, recommend it as a good alternative to costly Adobe products.) Given the ease of Visio's page model, the great set of wireframing stencils I use, and the nice set of macros from welie.com I've just adopted, I think I'll be sticking with Visio and keeping my fingers crossed that MS's next version will finally upgrade it from bastard step-child of the Office family of products. -Jonathan On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Dante Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > RE: Paste in Place... > > Check out the "VISIO Stuff" on www.welie.com for a macro that you can use to > enable paste in place. It's so easy to do I've memorized it, and works > perfectly. At least that's ONE problem solved. > > Dante Murphy | VP/D User Experience| D I G I T A S H E A L T H > 100 Penn Square East| Wanamaker Building, 11th Floor | Philadelphia, PA 19107 > | USA > Email: [email protected] > www.digitashealth.com > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
