Package: dia Version: 0.96.1-5 Severity: normal Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Filip Van Raemdonck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: dia: lacking drawing possibilities Bcc: Filip Van Raemdonck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Reportbug-Version: 3.39
Package: dia Version: 0.96.1-5 Trying to draw a tunnel shape by hand (due to lack of an existing one) I couldn't because the drawing possibilities are severely clumsy. A few random thoughts: * I tried to create a tunnel shape first by drawing an elipsis (long axis vertically oriented) and connecting two horizontal lines to it. Either I would have to connect one end point of the line to the and have it be non-horizontal, or have it horizontal but not be connected; due to the lack of snap-horizontal/vertical/some-degree drawing modifier. * I could work around that by enabling snap to raster, snapping the center point of the elipsis, snapping the two outer points, and snap-drawing two horizontal lines to the raster at the points where they'd be connected to the elipsis. Rather cumbersome... * Next problem was adding the second elipsis at the other side of the tunnel; I had to draw it away from the endpoints of the horizontal lines, snap center and outer points similarly to the first one to align it correctly, then make the horizontal lines longer to snap on the raster at the point where they'd be connected to this second elipsis. Again, way to complicated for what should be a simple drawing. * Then I realized that the two elipsises were filled with white, whereas the plane in between them and the horizontal connecting lines was completely "open". * As I couldn't figure out how to fill that plane, I removed the lines tried replacing them with a rectangular shape. Which I could not connect to the elipsises in any way; while the corners of the rectangle and the intersection points of the elipsises would both be snapped to the raster, the shapes were not connected. * I realized there was another problem: to have a 3d perception, on elipsis should only be half visible. Could do that by moving it "below" the rectangle, but then the side of the rectangle above that elipsis would remain visible. Some way of "breaking up" shapes would be nice. * At that point I gave up. I also tried using the existing "storage" shape from the "network" sheet, but that wouldn't work out either because a) there's no way to rotate shapes that I could find b) there's no way to resize shapes only in one direction KR, Filip -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (10, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dia depends on: ii dia-common 0.96.1-5 Diagram editor (common files) ii dia-libs 0.96.1-5 Diagram editor (library files) ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.19-3 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.20.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.7-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.4.10-1+b2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.1-5 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.1-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libpango1.0-0 1.18.4-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-2 PNG library - runtime ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxcomposite1 1:0.3.2-1+b1 X11 Composite extension library ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.1-3 X11 damaged region extension libra ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.6.31.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-1 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime Versions of packages dia recommends: ii gsfonts-x11 0.20 Make Ghostscript fonts available t -- no debconf information -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (10, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dia depends on: ii dia-common 0.96.1-5 Diagram editor (common files) ii dia-libs 0.96.1-5 Diagram editor (library files) ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.19-3 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.20.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.7-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.4.10-1+b2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.1-5 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.1-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libpango1.0-0 1.18.4-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-2 PNG library - runtime ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxcomposite1 1:0.3.2-1+b1 X11 Composite extension library ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.1-3 X11 damaged region extension libra ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.6.31.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-1 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime Versions of packages dia recommends: ii gsfonts-x11 0.20 Make Ghostscript fonts available t -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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