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Published inMay 2016
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ISBN-139781785882661
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David J Parker's background has been in data visualization ever since he struggled to produce lists of hospital equipment from Computer Aided Design models of buildings as a budding architect in the '80s. He moved into building and infrastructure asset management in the late '80s using a Unix system and gradually migrated to Windows-based systems throughout the '90s. He became a European Business partner of Visio Corporation in 1996 and presented the database-linked Visio solutions that he was providing merchant banks in London and New York with at several international conferences. David started bVisual Ltd. in 1998, which provides Visio-based solutions to various industries, and became a Silver-level Microsoft partner. He has been a Microsoft MVP (Visio) for the last 12 years and has helped Microsoft Corp, UK and Western Europe, by providing Visio solutions, training, website content, and presentations. David has had several books on Visio published and has been presenting Visio/SharePoint integration courses for many years for Microsoft Western Europe, from Oslo in the North down to Lisbon in the South. He has presented at SQL and SharePoint Saturday conferences and writes a regular blog for people interested in Microsoft Visio.
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Chapter 6, Creating Custom Master Shapes, includes some information about custom templates and should be read in addition to this section.

Templates are just Visio documents with a VSTX, or VSTM, extension that tells Visio that the default action is to create a new document based on it. The template document may contain no Masters in its Document Stencil, or it could contain any number of custom Masters. For example, a custom version of the dynamic connector Master is found in several of the Microsoft Visio-installed templates.

Templates do not need to include docked stencils, but they often do. The docked stencils can be ones that are part of the Visio installation, or they can be custom stencils.

The preview image of a Visio document is created from the shapes that are on the first page. Therefore, a preview image of a template can be created by adding some shapes to the first page.

However, the default image created is not very sharp, but this can be improved. First...

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Published in: May 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785882661

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David Parker

David J Parker's background has been in data visualization ever since he struggled to produce lists of hospital equipment from Computer Aided Design models of buildings as a budding architect in the '80s. He moved into building and infrastructure asset management in the late '80s using a Unix system and gradually migrated to Windows-based systems throughout the '90s. He became a European Business partner of Visio Corporation in 1996 and presented the database-linked Visio solutions that he was providing merchant banks in London and New York with at several international conferences. David started bVisual Ltd. in 1998, which provides Visio-based solutions to various industries, and became a Silver-level Microsoft partner. He has been a Microsoft MVP (Visio) for the last 12 years and has helped Microsoft Corp, UK and Western Europe, by providing Visio solutions, training, website content, and presentations. David has had several books on Visio published and has been presenting Visio/SharePoint integration courses for many years for Microsoft Western Europe, from Oslo in the North down to Lisbon in the South. He has presented at SQL and SharePoint Saturday conferences and writes a regular blog for people interested in Microsoft Visio.
Read more about David Parker