How to make Visio discard cropped data

The Visio Crop tool appears to be more of a Mask tool. It does not
really crop anything.

I loaded a large bitmap file into Visio and cropped it down to a small
portion in the middle. When I saved and closed the file, I was
surprised that the file size did not shrink. When I reopened it, I
discovered that I could uncrop the image.

Is there some way I can tell Visio to discard the cropped material?

I need to extract some small segments from some large graphics files.
I don't want to store all that extra junk.

Thanks

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Email: Usenet-20031220 at spamex.com
(11/09/04)

You need to use a raster graphics application to do this first, such as
Paint.

"LurfysMa" wrote in message
news:1113635044.551886806a2b885a9225e93cfb0399c6@t eranews...
The Visio Crop tool appears to be more of a Mask tool. It does not
really crop anything.

I loaded a large bitmap file into Visio and cropped it down to a small
portion in the middle. When I saved and closed the file, I was
surprised that the file size did not shrink. When I reopened it, I
discovered that I could uncrop the image.

Is there some way I can tell Visio to discard the cropped material?

I need to extract some small segments from some large graphics files.
I don't want to store all that extra junk.

Thanks

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Email: Usenet-20031220 at spamex.com
(11/09/04)

Either that, or you could cut the image (CTRL+X),
do an Edit | Paste Special, and repaste the image in
Device Independent Bitmap format. This would ensure that
the image is completely cropped and that the "masked"
data no longer remains.

Hope this helps!

- Jeff Chapman

"David Parker [Visio MVP]" wrote in message
...
You need to use a raster graphics application to do this first, such as
Paint.

"LurfysMa" wrote in message
news:1113635044.551886806a2b885a9225e93cfb0399c6@t eranews...
The Visio Crop tool appears to be more of a Mask tool. It does not
really crop anything.

I loaded a large bitmap file into Visio and cropped it down to a small
portion in the middle. When I saved and closed the file, I was
surprised that the file size did not shrink. When I reopened it, I
discovered that I could uncrop the image.

Is there some way I can tell Visio to discard the cropped material?

I need to extract some small segments from some large graphics files.
I don't want to store all that extra junk.

Thanks

--
Email: Usenet-20031220 at spamex.com
(11/09/04)