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