Visio2000: Sample Macro to Export a Region in a Drawing to a Graphic Format (291195)

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Sample Code

The following sample code gets a selection object of all Visio shapes in a region of a drawing page, and then exports them to a graphics format.

The example gets all the shapes in the upper-right quadrant of an 8.5-by-11 page.

NOTE: When you call the Export method, Visio uses the same graphics filter options that the user chose the last time a file was saved in that format. You cannot change these options programmatically in Visio 2000.

Public Sub SaveRegionDemo()

Dim selectRegion As Visio.Selection
Dim shpBoundingRect As Visio.Shape

' Draw a rectangle that covers the quadrant that we want to save.
Set shpBoundingRect = ActivePage.DrawRectangle(4.25, 11, 8.5, 5.5)

' Get a selection object that contains all shapes that share space with the 
' rectangle.
Set selectRegion = _
shpBoundingRect.SpatialNeighbors(visSpatialOverlap + visSpatialContain, 0, 0)

' Comment the previous line and uncomment the next one if you want to 
' save only shapes that are completely within the boundary rectangle:
' Set selQuadrant = shpBoundingRect.SpatialNeighbors(visSpatialContain, 0, 0)

shpBoundingRect.Delete

selectRegion.Export ("c:\test.bmp")

End Sub