On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 14:03 +0000, Kerry, Richard wrote: > > I've recently installed Dia, having seen a diagram in the Bugzilla > documentation similar to what I wanted to do. > I seem to have found a handful of problems, some of them are issues > where the help-file doesn't appear to be correct. I don't know > whether I'm misunderstanding something or the help is not the correct > build for the program. > > 1. > I'd like to change a drawing from compressed to uncompressed XML. The > default is compressed but I want to version control my document so > prefer it to be uncompressed xml. I needed to do this by saving with > a new name, renaming, deleting to get this to happen. Should I have > been able to do this just by clearing the "Compress saved files" > option and resaving ?
Yes. > 2. > Right-click on the canvas. Nothing happens. The manual says do this > to get Select Connected/Transitive Objects menu to appear but it > doesn't. That's only available from the Select menu. The manual is old enough that it doesn't know about the current default style of menus, only the older Gimp-style menus. You can toggle between these in the preferences. > 3. > When I open existing diagram file, I prefer canvas to be same size it > was for last edit, . That is not yet stored in the save file, though there's a suggestion up for it. Also other edit-relevant settings (zoom level, position in diagram etc) should be stored there. > 3a. Subsidiary windows (layers, diagram tree) open very small first > time. Though on a subsequent run they do pick up the size they were > before. They probably open with the minimum size that fits their (few) elements. > 4. > Can't change a line to a PolyLine. I've drawn my diagram with Lines. > On occasions I've found that I want to route one around another item. > In this case I've needed to create a new PolyLine for this. Would it > be possible to remove the distinction, at least internally, and allow > corners to be added to Lines. The thought has definitely crossed my mind, several times even. Problem is that the Line object has a few extra features that would have to be implemented on the PolyLine as well. Could be fun to integrate the ZigZagLine, but that's more tricky. > 5. > Editing Text. The Delete key deletes the object not the character and > is thus different from most other Windows programs. Also ctrl+arrow > doesn't jump by word. I've seen an entry in the Archives indicating > that some change have recently been done in this area and also a > discussion about a new Installer build, the first since 2007; > hopefully this will come soon. This is fixed in the 0.97 release, which Hans and compatriots are hard at work at polishing off. > 6. > Can I render to png (say) from the command line ? Yes I can. > Actually the Help files say nothing specifically about the command > line except for a handful of references in passing. I have found that > dia --help has a bit more to say but it should be in the manual > somewhere. And not even -?, --help was mentioned in the current > manual. That would be great to have added to the manual. Could you do that? > 7. > From a plain install I always get a Warning dialog at startup - > "Several object types were named Cisco - CDDI-FDDI" etc. Surely this > shouldn't be giving warnings without my having done anything ? Fixed in 0.97. > 8. > The File menu on a canvas includes Open but doesn't include recently > used items but the one on the toolbox does. That is... kinda inconsistent. > I suspect several of these are due to the very old Windows build so I > hope a new build will be available soon. > Apologies if all these have been addressed recently - I look forward > to trying a new build but if there isn't one soon I may move to a > different package. Yeah, it's been taking quite a while to get the new one out. I hope a beta release comes along soon. -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
