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Visio: Transparencies and Soft Shadows

In my first screencast (Visio- Expressive Diagrams Demo) I showed how to use the Visio ShapeSheet to create some nice effects with transparencies. In my new screencast I show how to use some pre-built shapes to easily build transparency effects without using the shapesheet at all.

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Link to video: http://vimeo.com/4218850

 

Diagrams with Sample Shapes used in the ScreenCast

Sample Gradient Transparencies

http://cid-19ec39cb500669d8.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Visio/Shapes/Shapes-with-Gradient-Transparencies.vsd

Soft Shadows

http://cid-19ec39cb500669d8.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Visio/Shapes/Soft-Shadows-and-Shapes.vsd

Published Monday, April 20, 2009 11:39 AM by saveenr

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Monday, April 20, 2009 3:13 PM by Visio: Transparencies and Soft Shadows | Microsoft Share Point

# re: Visio: Transparencies and Soft Shadows

Excellent work, as usual!

And the videos you make are a great help too!

- Chris

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:10 AM by Visio Guy

# re: Visio: Transparencies and Soft Shadows

Thanks for making these - I have been trying to work out how to get some decent drop shadows and stumbled across these!

BUT - anyone else have issues making a PDF of documents using this technique?  i.e. it loads very slowly and comes out dithered on the PDF.  It's the old Visio-can't-PDF-transparencies-properly issue!  I'm using 2003 Professional.  Is this fixed in 2007 version?

Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:30 AM by jon

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