On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 15:12 +0200, Lars Ruoff wrote: > Hello List, > > I have given Dia/Win32 a try several times now since a couple of years with > several versions. > I'm currently using the latest 0.96.1-7 on Windows XP SP2. > The problem with Dia in all this verisons is: When i print out diagrams, the > result is ugly and very different from the on-screen layout. Text flows over > box boundaries, lines don't start at exact boundaries as they were > positioned in the diagam etc. > I suppose this is a known issue (i wasn't in the mood to register on > Bugzilla to verify that). > Maybe it's only a Windows issue? Maybe a GTK issue? > What i wonder is why this bug stays open for a such long period of time? > The whole program is rather useless when you cannot print out diagrams > corretly. > Don't get me wrong, but this limitation really sucks! > It's the only thing that keeps me off from using Dia more seriously. > Please put the fixing of this thing to higher priority.
Version 0.96 was the first one to implement a proper way to determine the width of the text strings and so allow a uniform text width across screen, printing and export. However, it does not seem to have seen as much testing under Windows as it should have (I don't have a Windows box myself, and don't know what may be going wrong). -Lars _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
