Jon-- You absolutely need to setup these macros: http://www.welie.com/visio/index.php
There are copy/paste-in-place macros that make working in Visio so much nicer! There's also lots of power in Visio's "background" pages -- since backgrounds themselves can have backgrounds... sort of like layers. Put your layout guides in a background and you won't have to copy them around so much. When I'm ready to review wireframes with my team, I generate PDFs rather than distribute the Visio file -- Microsoft provides a great (and free!) PDF generator add-in for Office -- http://tinyurl.com/2v77sn I've become very proficient at using Visio for my IxD tasks -- since it's not your lingua franca, it'll take some getting used to, but try not to despair! Best, Jon P.S. The next version of Office has a brand new version of Visio (finally!) ... I've done some beta testing, and it's a welcome improvement. Get it as soon as you can. On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Jonathan Cohen<[email protected]> wrote: > @druid %u2013 thanks, have you tried exporting your doc as a visio xml > drawing? > > @maurice, @david %u2013 no dice %u2013 visio doesn%u2019t like pdfs. > Tried all the format options and nothing worked. Thanks though. > > @stevenitz %u2013 can%u2019t use a mac at work. =( wish I could > though, apps like coda, textmate, cssedit really helped me up my > game. > > @david %u2013 yeah, diagramming for sure, no pixels allowed. > > @kim %u2013 yep, I%u2019d need to copy and paste each object/layer > separately. Obviously not going to scale. > > @todd %u2013 agreed > > @stephen %u2013 that would be great, but I%u2019m not allowed to use > my personal comp at work for anything. Looked into it already. =) > > @renee %u2013 all this pdf talk makes me wonder if one of my settings > is incorrect. I couldn%u2019t get a pdf created by one program to open > in the other. > > Visio gets the job done, but not without quirks. Alt Shift F6 to > zoom? I can work around its refusal to allow pixels as a metric with > stencils, but Visio forces me to think about regions in inches or > points, which obviously isn%u2019t a digital display language. I > built a persona template yesterday with a ton of guides and when it > came time to make an attributes tab, couldn%u2019t duplicate the > layout. Each guide needed to be manually selected, copied and pasted, > and then moved to its appropriate spot since Visio flung them into a > random place. =) Also, no one wants to navigate through a large > wireframe deck with tabs. Haven%u2019t made a wireframe yet, but I > suspect I%u2019ll miss layers quite a bit. > > Anyway, it%u2019s always good to focus on what makes something > usable. Thanks for the responses all! > > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44568 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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
