> The problem is that he is using a copy of dia compiled with
> gnome-print
> support, which is currently incomplete. The one thing it is
> missing is
> support for elliptic arcs (as gnome-print doesn't provide an API for
> drawing elliptic arcs).
>
> I suppose we should add support for them. The two options are to draw
> them as a polyline (how many segments??) or approximate them
> with beziers
> (how many segments? does anyone know the best way to place the control
> points?)
You can have a look at Libart's VPath. Raph implements circles by creating a VPath
(dunno how many segments,but it looks good)...
Arjan
