On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:31:43 -0500 Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > In previous dia versions, within dia I've been able to set the page > size of a drawing to a selection of all objects on the drawing. Then, > a simple export to svg would give the exact sized graphic in svg form, > ready to put on a website. The new dia version I just installed has no > random resizing capability, restricting the user to a predefined list > of page sizes. Hi all, As you know, previous Dia versions had a "size to selection" button for page size, but current versinos got rid of that feature. So here's how I worked around it... What I do is draw my diagram, making certain the upper left corner of my drawing is very near 0,0. Then I find a canned shape (typically either Letter landscape or Letter portrait that approximately the same size as the drawing, as evidenced by the heavier grid lines at 8.5 and 11 or whatever. I set the margins very small, like 0.1cm, and then I adjust the scaling factor so the drawing completely fits inside the paper size. This produces a ddrawing that's correctly sized. SteveT > > After installing Ubuntu 12.10, I installed dia from Ubuntu's package > manager: > > =================== > slitt@mydesk:~$ dia -v > Dia version 0.97.2, compiled 19:25:35 Apr 30 2012 > slitt@mydesk:~$ > =================== > > Is the resize page to selection somewhere in the menu system other > than File->Page_setup? Is there some way to get my dia to resize page > to selection? I'm sure I'm not the only one who misses this feature. > How are the rest of you getting along without it? > > Without this feature I'd need to re-edit my dia diagram with Inkscape, > which is an inconvenience I'd really like to forego. > > Thanks > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > _______________________________________________ > dia-list mailing list > dia-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq > Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia > _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
