Scaling and Anti-Scaling Ratios and Formulas

The Scale ratio is the following formula:

"=ThePage!PageScale/ThePage!DrawingScale"

Another formula we will be discussing in a moment is the Anti-scale ratio, which is the following formula:

"=ThePage!DrawingScale/ThePage!PageScale"

Enough with the theory already! Let's put this into practice. We are going to try another experiment. Close any open documents you might have in Visio. Now create two new blank documents. Select Window, Tile. You should have both Drawing 1:Page-1 and Drawing 2:Page-1 shown on the child windows in Visio. Make Drawing 2 active. Select File, Page Setup from the menus. In the Page Setup dialog box, select the Drawing Scale tab. In Visio 2000, click the Custom Scale radio ...

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