John Goldsmith's visLog

New ClippingPath cell in Visio 2013

In amongst some of the new changes in Visio 2013 is the addition of a new ShapeSheet cell in the Foreign Image section.  Since I looked at image masking a few years ago (as did Chris Roth), I thought it would be interesting to take a look what you can now do with this new cell. 

Using the Visio Event Monitor tool

 

When I began to think about the previous post, (on automating the insertion of images into an Org Chart), I started by running the Visio Event Monitor tool while manually inserting an image using the Add-On's right click option to see the results.  Rather than squeeze all of the technical explanation into the same post, I thought I'd add a second one to go into all of the gory details and also introduce the Event Monitor tool for anyone that hasn't come across it before...

Linking Org Chart Images

A newsgroup poster asked a question this week about how he could link images within his Org Chart data.

Under normal conditions the Org Chart addon enables you to add images on a one-by-one basis.  The Insert Picture... context menu option produces a file picker dialog that waits for the user to select an image file before continuing its process and this gets in the way of any proper programatic access...