Hello
Just to report some problems with Dia.
Lazy as I was, I downloaded the Dia 0.80 Intel RPM and installed
it into my RH6.1 system. Everything went OK and Dia looked very
promising as I drew a simple diagram (*). I could even print it
with no problems.
But when I saved my work and restarted the application, I could
load the diagram, but not print it. Dia just seemed to go into a
busyloop and I had to kill it. Printing to file generated an ever-
growing almost-like-postscript output. The file size was 30M and
growing when I killed Dia once more. EPS export seemed to work
OK, but ghostscript reported errors and refused to show the pict-
ure.
OK, no probs, just go get the 0.82 sources and make your own,
up-to-date software. Configure ok, make gives some warnings about
the source -- nothing unusual -- and ./app/run_dia.sh starts new
Dia. I load the diagram and try to print. Dia doesn't hang, but
nothing comes out of the printer. Export to EPS and printing to
PS-file both result a file which ghostscript refuses to show:
Error: /undefined in inf
Operand stack:
Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- 2 3
%oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1
%stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval--
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 5 3
%oparray_pop
Dictionary stack:
--dict:769/809-- --dict:0/20-- --dict:77/200--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 10942
(*) One thing which wasn't as smooth as everything else in Dia
was the handling of dotted lines. Dia UI slowed down tenfolds
when I tried hanling a dotted line which was partially on top
of a solid line.
Thanks for the fine software. Dia looks so good I dropped my
thoughs of using xfig to draw the diagrams for my masters thesis
in five minutes of testing.
//jani
