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Just got myself a copy of Visio 2003 pro, which I was pretty excited about until they told me I was to make 50+ rack diagrams, 7 site network layouts, 1 WAN layout and 1 projected site layout.
I need some help with a particular feature. Normally when you add text to an item the text won't change in size when you resize the object, so you either have a small object with very large text or a large object with very small text. But I need it to. So how do I add text to an object and when I resize it keep the text in proportion to the object. The only reason this matters is because the smallest font I can use is 1 point and I need to get much smaller than that.
Any help will be appreciated.
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1-point font is about 1/16th of an inch wide. I need about 1/32nd inch wide. I have an example in a stencil of someone else doing it but I can't figure out how they did it.
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Is that READABLE? If you aren't going to print the thing, wouldn't you be better off just creating multiple layers?
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quote:I'm not sure it's physically possible to have text that's smaller than one point.
In fact, text that's one point in size is going to be a single pixel, right?
The point is actually a unit of measurement of the height of a capital letter, and was brought into computing from typesetting. A typographic point is about 1/72 of an inch, and the relationship of pixels to points would be dependent on your screen's resolution. It is physically possible to make a letter smaller than one point, but a letter that is shorter than 1/72 inch (about a third of a millimeter) would definitely be both impractical to manufacture a type for and hard or impossible to read with the naked eye.
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When you use a full 8x11 paper for one rack it is, or if you zoom in alot. That is the kind of attention to detail i like to get to.
I don't only want them to see a UPS there, but that it is a APC 1400RM smart UPS. They will see all the lights lit and even the little symbols under each of the lights.
I usally work at a 1 in. = 1 ft. scale at 2000% zoom.
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