I
agree with the remarks made in reply.
To
add to the suggestions and to make things more practical (maybe an open door
for you guys but anyway ;-) ) :
Splitting up a large sequence diagram in multiple diagrams is
facilitated in Rose by the capability to hyper link sheets. Just drop a UML
note on a diagram and attach that note to a message in a sequence diagram.
Create another sequence diagram with the details regarding the operation that
you connected the note to. Drag and drop this new sheet from the Rose model
browser on top of this UML note.
Double clicking this note will open up the new sheet and will reveal
the detail. You can thus create a sheet hierachy. Divide and conquer
;-)
You
can go back to the initial sheet (with the UML note on it) by clicking on the
back arrow (the blue one in the top middle section of the Rose menu speed
button bar.
Happy modelling !
Migchiel de Jong
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At the print dialog box, there is a layout
tab. Click on the tab and choose Fit to page option. That should
do the trick to fit the diagram to a single page. Otherwise, choosing
the default print option, there should handles printed that you can use to
paste several pages into a single large diagram.
However, personally, I don't like large
sequence diagrams. For one, the problem of printing - and printing to
serveral pages only results in nice wallpapers but serves little or no
functional value. For another, large sequence diagrams also means more
mental capacity to understand what is being achieve.
My preference for a complex scenario is to
break it down to multiple sequence diagrams that fits nicely to an A4
or Letter size paper. This, I find, helps tremendously in readability
of your design specifications...and also easier for you later to maintain
the design specifications as well. But, this is just my
suggestion.
Rgds
Nick
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, 21 November 2001
4:42 PM
Subject: (ROSE) Howto print big
Sequence Diagram
Hi all,
I
gotta big sequence diagram . I tried all sorts of methods to shrink it and
print it unfortunately I couldn't.
When I tried to import the image on to MS-Word, font was too small read...
:(
Please tell
me if there is a way to print big sequence diagrams on a single
page.
Thank you
sashi
