1. Go to Diagrams/Properties/Colors and set the Page break color to something that contrasts with the grid and backgroound.
2. I believe some someone said the rulers are always in cm and cannot be changed. I just did a little experiment. My page set up is set to Letter - 8.5 x 11 inches. The margins are all 2.54cm (1 inch). This means that between the page brake lines are 9 inches vertically and indeed the ruler says the page break distance is 9 inches (22.06cm). I will let you do the rest, but I bet if you make it 11x17 the vertical breaks will be 15 inches (38.1 cm) apart. 3. I haven't check the line widths, but I believe they are in mm. I think those units are shown in the Properties windows. 4. No idea. I usually get screen dumps of my diagrams and make jpegs from them. I find that print drivers for Windows seem to hate Dia output. maybe that is inaccurate, but I lose patenicen quickly, and go with methods I can get dependable results form. I may put these diagrams images into Inkscape or The Gimp for other functions. I can yank, stretch and distor the images in those programs in the context of any size paper I want which is useful. Then I make yet another screen dump to jpeg. Jpegs are small and can be freely read read and used in many other contexts. mike On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:21 AM, Robert Latest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello people, > > I've got a few questions regarding units and sizes in dia: > > 1. In page setup, I can set a page size, but I can't see the page > borders in the canvas > > 2. What are the units of the rulers, and how can they be changed? > > 3. What are the units of e.g. line widths? > > 4: If exporting to a bitmap, how can the pixel size/resolution be set? > > I couldn't find anything in the docs or FAQ. > > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- Michael Ross ================================= Cycling in Central North Carolina Schwinn Voyageur 11.8 Linear LWB, Greenspeed GTO, BikeE CT, AT
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