Re: How to change page size to selection size SOLVED WITH WORKAROUND
On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:38:16 +0200 Hans Breuer h...@breuer.org wrote: At 11.04.2013 06:26, Steve Litt wrote: On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:43:02 +0200 Hans Breuerh...@breuer.org wrote: At 10.04.2013 20:48, Steve Litt wrote: [...] As you know, previous Dia versions had a size to selection button for page size, but current versinos got rid of that feature.[...] You said that before and apparently are not aware of my answer: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2013-February/msg00031.html It does not become more true by prefixing that statetment with As you know. At least I am not aware of any size to selection button having been available in Dia in the last twelve years. Please be more specific what you did before - especially how - and what is not working anymore in which version. I'll tell you what Hans, I'll go to the not inconsiderable trouble of: 1) Find a spare computer 2) Find a copy of Ubuntu 10.04 or whatever 3) Take a complete set of screenshots of the facility to size the page to selection 4) Make the screenshots available to the list I'll do all that if you promise to put back the functionality that the screenshots reveal. The only thing I can promise it that I wont try to fix something that I dont understand. I have a lot of Dia versions readily available for testing, but I simply cant imaginge where you have seen the button you are talking about. Maybe you had a custom script or plug-in providing all the facility to size the page to selection? Also I'm not interested at all in screenshots, so please dont bother to create these. Especially not from something which was never part of an official Dia version. Screenshots wont help you to get the feature back. Finding the source of that feature might. Whoops. I'm wrong. You're right. Sorry. I had forgotten how I REALLY used dia back in the old days. I did further research and found that this size to selection property was in Inkscape, not dia. I used to export dia to svg and then resize the drawing in Inkscape before converting to .pdf. In order that it size correctly, I'd put a tiny translucent circle just upper left and lower right of the dia drawing, in order that the finished .pdf's borders wouldn't touch the lines of the drawing itself. Then I ran it through my dia2pdf script: == #!/bin/bash dianame=$1 gname=`echo $dianame | sed -e s/\..*$//` pdfname=$gname.pdf echo Converting $dianame to $pdfname inkscape --export-area-drawing --export-pdf=$pdfname $dianame acroread $pdfname == I'm sorry that my forgetting how I converted caused me to claim a lost dia feature that never existed. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance ___ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
Re: How to change page size to selection size SOLVED WITH WORKAROUND
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:43:02 +0200 Hans Breuer h...@breuer.org wrote: At 10.04.2013 20:48, Steve Litt wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:31:43 -0500 Steve Littsl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Hi all, In previous dia versions, within dia I've been able to set the page size of a drawing to a selection of all objects on the drawing. Then, a simple export to svg would give the exact sized graphic in svg form, ready to put on a website. The new dia version I just installed has no random resizing capability, restricting the user to a predefined list of page sizes. Hans, I think you are referring to the page scale factor: File-Page Setup Look at scale and fit-to sizes. If you want your objects to fit in one page you can use fit-to 1 by 1 or play with the scale factor until you get a satisfactory fit in the pages you want. I typically use a scale factor of between 20 and 40 for the UML sheet but of course YMMV. Best, -- Alejandro Imass ___ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
Re: How to change page size to selection size SOLVED WITH WORKAROUND
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:31:43 -0500 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Hi all, In previous dia versions, within dia I've been able to set the page size of a drawing to a selection of all objects on the drawing. Then, a simple export to svg would give the exact sized graphic in svg form, ready to put on a website. The new dia version I just installed has no random resizing capability, restricting the user to a predefined list of page sizes. Hi all, As you know, previous Dia versions had a size to selection button for page size, but current versinos got rid of that feature. So here's how I worked around it... What I do is draw my diagram, making certain the upper left corner of my drawing is very near 0,0. Then I find a canned shape (typically either Letter landscape or Letter portrait that approximately the same size as the drawing, as evidenced by the heavier grid lines at 8.5 and 11 or whatever. I set the margins very small, like 0.1cm, and then I adjust the scaling factor so the drawing completely fits inside the paper size. This produces a ddrawing that's correctly sized. SteveT After installing Ubuntu 12.10, I installed dia from Ubuntu's package manager: === slitt@mydesk:~$ dia -v Dia version 0.97.2, compiled 19:25:35 Apr 30 2012 slitt@mydesk:~$ === Is the resize page to selection somewhere in the menu system other than File-Page_setup? Is there some way to get my dia to resize page to selection? I'm sure I'm not the only one who misses this feature. How are the rest of you getting along without it? Without this feature I'd need to re-edit my dia diagram with Inkscape, which is an inconvenience I'd really like to forego. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt ___ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia ___ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
Re: How to change page size to selection size SOLVED WITH WORKAROUND
At 10.04.2013 20:48, Steve Litt wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:31:43 -0500 Steve Littsl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Hi all, In previous dia versions, within dia I've been able to set the page size of a drawing to a selection of all objects on the drawing. Then, a simple export to svg would give the exact sized graphic in svg form, ready to put on a website. The new dia version I just installed has no random resizing capability, restricting the user to a predefined list of page sizes. Hi all, As you know, previous Dia versions had a size to selection button for page size, but current versinos got rid of that feature.[...] You said that before and apparently are not aware of my answer: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2013-February/msg00031.html It does not become more true by prefixing that statetment with As you know. At least I am not aware of any size to selection button having been available in Dia in the last twelve years. Please be more specific what you did before - especially how - and what is not working anymore in which version. Thanks, Hans Hans at Breuer dot Org --- Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.-- Dilbert ___ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
Re: How to change page size to selection size SOLVED WITH WORKAROUND
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:43:02 +0200 Hans Breuer h...@breuer.org wrote: At 10.04.2013 20:48, Steve Litt wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:31:43 -0500 Steve Littsl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Hi all, In previous dia versions, within dia I've been able to set the page size of a drawing to a selection of all objects on the drawing. Then, a simple export to svg would give the exact sized graphic in svg form, ready to put on a website. The new dia version I just installed has no random resizing capability, restricting the user to a predefined list of page sizes. Hi all, As you know, previous Dia versions had a size to selection button for page size, but current versinos got rid of that feature.[...] You said that before and apparently are not aware of my answer: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2013-February/msg00031.html It does not become more true by prefixing that statetment with As you know. At least I am not aware of any size to selection button having been available in Dia in the last twelve years. Please be more specific what you did before - especially how - and what is not working anymore in which version. I'll tell you what Hans, I'll go to the not inconsiderable trouble of: 1) Find a spare computer 2) Find a copy of Ubuntu 10.04 or whatever 3) Take a complete set of screenshots of the facility to size the page to selection 4) Make the screenshots available to the list I'll do all that if you promise to put back the functionality that the screenshots reveal. SteveT ___ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
Re: How to change page size to selection size SOLVED WITH WORKAROUND
Photoshopped? Just kidding. On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote: On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:43:02 +0200 Hans Breuer h...@breuer.org wrote: At 10.04.2013 20:48, Steve Litt wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:31:43 -0500 Steve Littsl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Hi all, In previous dia versions, within dia I've been able to set the page size of a drawing to a selection of all objects on the drawing. Then, a simple export to svg would give the exact sized graphic in svg form, ready to put on a website. The new dia version I just installed has no random resizing capability, restricting the user to a predefined list of page sizes. Hi all, As you know, previous Dia versions had a size to selection button for page size, but current versinos got rid of that feature.[...] You said that before and apparently are not aware of my answer: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2013-February/msg00031.html It does not become more true by prefixing that statetment with As you know. At least I am not aware of any size to selection button having been available in Dia in the last twelve years. Please be more specific what you did before - especially how - and what is not working anymore in which version. I'll tell you what Hans, I'll go to the not inconsiderable trouble of: 1) Find a spare computer 2) Find a copy of Ubuntu 10.04 or whatever 3) Take a complete set of screenshots of the facility to size the page to selection 4) Make the screenshots available to the list I'll do all that if you promise to put back the functionality that the screenshots reveal. SteveT ___ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edisonhttp://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk michael.e.r...@gmail.com michael.e.r...@gmail.com ___ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
