James Henstridge wrote:
> > [BUG] Correct zoom scaling - at 100% I can see several pages. 200% is
> > close
> > to the correct size.
>
> This is an old problem. Early in dia's development, there was no
> printing support, and most of the shapes are the wrong size (especially
> the UML objects). I recommend setting a scaling factor in the page
> settings dialog.
I used to do that but now I zoom in to about 250% and leave the scaling
along - at least that was I know how big something will be as it is
surrounded by the page border.
A related question: what are the units for font size/line width etc? If
I want to type in 8pt, what should I use?
> > [BUG] Permissions are not being set correctly when running 'make
> > install'.
> > /usr/local/share/dia and /usr/local/lib/dia where set to permissions
> > 751.
>
> Hmm. The commands to create those directories is generated by
> automake. I would have thought it would use 755. You don't happen to
> have your umask set weirdly?
A ha - if I "su" I get a umask of 026, but if I "su -" I get a umask of
022. I think I should su - in the future.
> > [REQUEST] A non-GUI batch mode - no splash screen, no nothing. Ideally
> > - a tiny
> > dia (possibly called dia-convert) that does not link to GNOME, GTK etc
> > for use on servers.
>
> Well, a connection to a running X server is currently required for
> calculation of font metrics, so this is a far off goal. Disabling the
> splash screen might be useful though.
Of course - the same problem affects graphical Java apps. Should have
thought of that, really. Oh well!
Thanks for the reply,
Ross
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