On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Alexander Larsson wrote:

> 
> Therefore you need in this case to use filled bezier curves. (Like daniel
> woods said.)
>
I used a set of 4 bezier curves and didn't bother to fill them.  Otherwise
I think I got them looking identical to the ones in the Sybase
documentation. 

> > 2) It would be nice if the delete key was bound to the delete operation
> > (Click on an object and press delete as opposed to Ctl-D)
>  I'd like to bind it to both, but i don't know how to do this in Gtk+...
>
Hmmm...got me on this one.  The delete seemed intuitive, when it didn't
work I had to go and look up the mnemonic on the popup.  Not a big thing
once you do it the first time, but definately something that puts off the
casual user. (Frankly I'd expect Ctl-D to be duplicate, but that's just me
and I can change my own bindings :)
 
> > 3) Is anyone working on exporting to HTML? I'd be interested in lending a
> > hand with this.
>  Eh? I suppose you mean export to gif? That would be nice. Writing a
> renderer that generates bitmaps (of any file format) would be very handy.
> 
Ah, yes that is what I meant. I might try using GD to write out gifs if I
get the time.

> > 4) It would be nice to denote (on the grid) where a page break is for
> > printing. All my print outs came out badly.
> 
>  Dia's printing facilities need a good overhaul. They're basically
> non-existant. The eps facilities are mostly geared towards embedding in
> other documents. I'll fix this some day. (I'm a bit busy with other stuff
> right now.)
>
I was able to play with epsffit as someone suggested and I worked
satisfactorily. It's amazing how legable the document is at small sizes (A
2" square printout w/ 60 objects was entirely readable!). Blows away
Visio.
  
> > P.S. I'll be forwarding the Sybase objects when finished.  There's a lot
> > of Sybase DBAs out there that would kill for this.
> 
>  Cool. I'll be waiting.
> 
Well I would forward it now but I left it at work...So Monday evening you
can expect it.  Its all finished and I used it to create two docs today.

One other annoyance that I didn't see a way to do was changing properties
on a set of select objects.  In my case I needed to change the color and
thickness on multiple line objects. Is this there or in the works? If not
I'll gladly start on it.

Brian

Reply via email to