On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, James Henstridge wrote:
> Ross Burton 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.
Now should this be scaled so that at 100%, one page is shown, or so that at
100%, 1cm in the diagram is displayed as 1cm on the screen?
>> [BUG] Arrowheads which render correctly. When using Lines the end of
>> the
>> arrow extends beyond the end of the line, and when using Filled
>> Triange the triangle is drawn _underneath_ the line without stopping
>> the line being drawn to the end first, so only the sides of the arrow
>> are visible and small arrows are not possible.
I've been thinking about doing something radical to arrowheads, like making
them part of the lines, really. The drawing could then interact to make
the line drawn correctly.
>> [REQUEST] Object Properties should either a) automatically update itself
>> every
>> time a new object is selected (not just when double-clicked), or b)
>> allow the following behavior:
>> 1) double-click on an object
>> 2) change the properties
>> 3) press apply
>> 4) select another object (single click)
>> 5) press apply to apply the changed settings to this object
>> This allows a single change to be applied to multiple objects.
>
> option (a) is probably the right one. What do other people think?
Agree.
>> [REQUEST] A keyboard shortcut to activate the cursor when a text object
>> is
>> active but the cursor is not.
I would like to rethink the whole way text objects are done. The lack of
distinction between selected and editing is a problem, though I have yet to
come up with a general solution (that also applies to other objects with
text).
>> [REQUEST] I cannot use any fonts other than the core Adobe postscript
>> fonts
>> (Courier, Helvetica, Times, etc). I have lots of PostScript fonts I
>> want to use in Dia but can't.
>
> Fonts are a very difficult issue for dia. It will take a major overhaul
> of the font handling to do this. Probably including switching to client
> side font rendering, possibly with freetype2 for example. Making use of
> gnome-print is the other option here.
This is a major problem. The font handling should *definitely* use the
system fonts, not a random predefined list (that not all systems have).
Postscript files can have the font defs optionally inserted.
>> [BUG] The page where the top-left corner is (0,0) should be centered in
>> the
>> window.
That's a matter of taste -- some like to think of the Diagram as mostly
extending right and down from the initial page.
-Lars
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