Dia is great. It is the first vector oriented drawing tool that I have ever
liked. As well as its intended diagram generation it could be used to
prepare presentations, in much the same way as PowerPoint. To do this,
I think only a few changes are needed; I have no idea if they are practical
or not.
1) Multiple page documents; perhaps just a wrapper that surrounds file names
with individual dia XML files, or maybe you would be better off with new tags
to wrap pages.
2) Most of the effects I ever use are already supported; about the only
thing I can think of is some kind of gradient fill object. This would do most of
the common things like background colour washes.
3) If you have some sort of multipage document, then minor printing revisions
(Print Current Page etc.) would be needed.
4) More ambitious, a thumbnail view / navigator.
5) Slide-show mode.
Just my 2c worth.
Julian Satchell
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