I can't explain the ugly font.
But you can set the unit of measure for the fonts in the Preferences User
Interface. Dia provides a lot of choices including picas, points, inches,
and millimeters. I have not tried to print out a particular font and
measure it for accuracy , but it looks OK. 12 point seems close to 12
point.
However, if you alter the Page Setup/Scale to be other than 100% the font
size is altered. A Page Setup Scale of 50% shrinks the image (not the
paper) to 1/2 original size and therefore the font is half as large as well
with respect to the paper. You can set the length unit to inches and the
font size to something other than inches, this could be part of the problem.
Another hint, the area outlined when the page breaks are visible is the
printable area not the page of paper itself. If you have letter size paper,
and set the margin to be 1 in all around, then the printable area shown will
be 9 in x 6.5 in. If you show a grid that is x = 0.254 cm and y = 0.254 cm
you can measure the printable area in inches.
To the developers - I am really pleased how consistent all this is today, a
couple releases ago it was much harder to figure out the font size, scale,
zoom, grid size and so on. Thanks for the hard work.
--
Michael E. Ross
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