Question about Drawing Lines   

Hey all! If I'm drawing a thick, colored line, is there a way of having it 
outlined in black?

any help would be, well, quite helpful!

date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 09:31:02 -0700   author:   ubrnostrum

Re: Question about Drawing Lines   

"ubrnostrum"  wrote in message 
news:9286CC54-48F7-4149-A5AE-CE94081D8AE7@microsoft.com...
> Hey all! If I'm drawing a thick, colored line, is there a way of having it
> outlined in black?
>
> any help would be, well, quite helpful!


You will have to create a custom line pattern. Like all Visio shapes, lines 
have a foreground and a background colour. So what is black will be the 
foreground colour and what is white is the background colour. If you use any 
other colour, it remains the same. If you want black in addition to the 
foreground colour, use an almost black colour like (255,255,254)

John... Visio MVP

date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:02:38 -0400   author:   John... Visio MVP

Re: Question about Drawing Lines   

Anotther solution is to create a thin rectangle (thus with border and fill) 
and change its behavior as 1D format (and lock its height if needed)
    "Format=>Behavior=>Interaction style=>1 D"
    "Format=>Protection=>Height"
Enjoy with visio.
"ubrnostrum"  a écrit dans le message 
de news:9286CC54-48F7-4149-A5AE-CE94081D8AE7@microsoft.com...
> Hey all! If I'm drawing a thick, colored line, is there a way of having it
> outlined in black?
>
> any help would be, well, quite helpful!

date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 08:01:48 +0200   author:   Michel LAPLANE \(MVP\)

Re: Question about Drawing Lines   

google "visio isometric"   That stencil has just what you need for 
this...though most are isometric lines...but has alot of intelligence (scales 
with shape thickness, geometries for bending corners, etc).

"Michel LAPLANE (MVP)" wrote:

> Anotther solution is to create a thin rectangle (thus with border and fill) 
> and change its behavior as 1D format (and lock its height if needed)
>     "Format=>Behavior=>Interaction style=>1 D"
>     "Format=>Protection=>Height"
> Enjoy with visio.
> "ubrnostrum"  a écrit dans le message 
> de news:9286CC54-48F7-4149-A5AE-CE94081D8AE7@microsoft.com...
> > Hey all! If I'm drawing a thick, colored line, is there a way of having it
> > outlined in black?
> >
> > any help would be, well, quite helpful! 
> 
>

date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:45:00 -0700   author:   vojo