On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Dan Bethe wrote:
> Hi there guys. First of all, I send my thanks to anyone who's
> contributed to development or discussion of Dia and GNOME.
> I just started using Dia to make a personnel organization chart. I'm
> using merely ellipses, solid and dotted arcs, rectangles, and Courier
> text. I created it on a stock system of Redhat 6.2 plus the latest
> Helix GNOME stable RPM release (Dia 0.86) as of last week. I even
> tried using the source distribution of Dia 0.86 from Dia's web site. I
> can save my .dia file and reload it just fine. I can load it on a
> Mandrake 7.2 system just fine.
> But if I export to PNG, the resulting image is totally small and
> unreadable.
> And if I export to EPS file or to a printer, the only shapes I can see
> are the arcs, rectangles, and the default Courier font. All other
> variants of the Courier font (different sizes, italics, or bold) and
> other elements listed above are gone. When I load the EPS file into
> ghostview, I get a bunch of errors, listed at the bottom of this
> message.
> I created a new dummy document using a rectangle, an ellipse, some
> Courier text, and solid and dotted arcs. It worked fine on all counts.
> Do you think the problem is with Dia, with Ghostscript, or what? Tell
> me anything I can do. Any workaround. The only way I can use this
> diagram is by reassembling screenshots of it. :(
> Thank you!
Check in the page setup dialog to see if the scaling factor is
sensible. For PNG output, a 100% scaling factor should be the same factor
as 100% when editing.
Sounds like you have a few NaN's in the postscript output, whichshouldn't
be happening.
James.
