On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Cameron S. Watters wrote: > There is additionally a "zoom" setting at the bottom of the page. While I > find the zoom setting useful changing my perspective on the diagram > (especially nice for multipage diagrams), changing my zoom level doesn't > really solve the problem outright. If I zoom it way out, or way in, > sometimes the on-screen representation looks pretty much right, however, > printing is still an issue. Even if I play with the zoom so that it looks > right on the screen, it still doesn't size the class diagrams correctly > for printing. While I'm ultimately more concerned about onscreen at the > moment, zooming out to 25% or in to 200% makes working with the document > pretty cumbersome.
You're touching on a rather nasty problem: When printing, we don't actually use the lengths of the postscript font strings, but the length in the diagram, using X fonts. I've seen rather nasty examples where the two were different. > And finally, if someone could just point me to a way to make _only_ the > UML object library (libuml_objects.so) without having to make the rest of > dia, I'd leave everyone alone and hack a mod to it so that it estimates > the width a little better (should be a pretty straightforward hack). $ cd objects/UML $ make -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| H�rdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
