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		<title>Create Clean &amp; Tidy Visio Shapes Using Images With Transparent Backgrounds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roth</dc:creator>
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You might already know that you can create Visio shapes by using already-existing images, bitmaps and photos.
But making good-looking drawings that use images takes more than just a download here and an import there.
You want ...]]></description>
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		<title>Title Blocks 101: Smart Tabs, Smart Text</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roth</dc:creator>
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Today we&#8217;ll continue our discussion of title block topics by talking about how to control the location of text chunks in a shape&#8217;s text block.
Sure, Visio text has tabs, which we&#8217;ll put to use. But ...]]></description>
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		<title>Add Multiple Layers at Once with this Neat Trick</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now I know everybody is probably running around crazy trying to complete all of their holiday tasks, so I thought I’d do a quick-and-easy article for you this December. This month’s offering will only take ...]]></description>
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		<title>Title Blocks 102: Let’s Make a Multi-field SmartShape!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roth</dc:creator>
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In our last article on Visio title blocks, Title Blocks #1: How to Display Existing Document Information, we were introduced to a remarkable title block shape.This single shape could display any of four different ...]]></description>
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		<title>Title Blocks 101: How to Display Existing Document Information</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roth</dc:creator>
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Title Blocks #1: How to Display Existing Document Information
Title blocks on drawings are important for many, many reasons.
If your company has created more than a small number of drawings, it&#8217;s useful to know who ...]]></description>
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		<title>A SmartShape is Worth 1000 Symbols</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roth</dc:creator>
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The promise of the Visio SmartShape is that one single shape can replace an entire army of symbols.
With a little bit of parameterization, we can clear out the redundancy in our symbol libraries, thereby simplifying ...]]></description>
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		<title>Create Better-looking, More-efficient SmartShapes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roth</dc:creator>
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Create Better-looking, More-efficient SmartShapes
Attractive, realistic-looking Visio equipment shapes don&#8217;t have to be heavy and inefficient.
In this article, we’ll look at some innovative A/V equipment shapes from D-Tools that offer the win-win scenario of ...]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make Smart Frames and Bezels #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roth</dc:creator>
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In our last article on smart  frames,  we built a SmartShape that maintained a constant border-thickness, no matter  the size of the shape.
It  was a fairly simple frame, it got ...]]></description>
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