ok - a worka round that seems to work: in case others have this problem too:
1. in dia load the image... zoom out about twice... and select all 2. move all the object to a place above and right of (0,0) 3. save 4. close dia. load anew dia 5. load diagram and export to eps seems to work i'm not sure if some of the above is "magic" but it just worked for me again - i hop ethis gives soem clues as to where its going odd thanks tariq -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tariq Rashid Sent: 22 January 2002 13:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: dia 0.88-1 export problem? soory to repeat post - if its any help - i've been editting the following inthe eps to get a reasonable diagram out so i can convert it to png... %% BoundingBox 0 0 x y <- x,y were negative from dia-0.88-1 on freebsd 4.4-rel x y translate <- x,y were very very large ... changed to smaller vals byy trial ands error does this shed any light? keep up the good work - dia is gping to be reall solid! t -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tariq Rashid Sent: 22 January 2002 13:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: dia 0.88-1 export problem? re: bad export (pape.scaling?... eps contains MASSIVE "translate values" thanks for the comments - i'll look into it more tonight... in answer to your question the platform is freebsd 4.4-release using dia-0.88-1 your workaround suggest changing the paper.scaling - how do i do this? i think i see the .dia file as binary and doing an fgrep on it shows no matching strings? tariq -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hans Breuer Sent: 21 January 2002 20:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: dia 0.88-1 export problem? At 20:33 20.01.02 -0000, Tariq Rashid wrote: > >dear all, > >i have been having some frustrating problems with dia going a bit unstable >after a while... producing "junk" files... > It would be nice if you could provide information about the platform your Dia is running on. First I concluded from your mailer that it is probably win32, but than ... >for example the file attched opens fine... ... none of my local Dia versions does open the attached file without tweakink. (It enters an endless loop in app/grid.c:grid_draw()). I've tracked it down to the paper.scaling value being "0" in your file which leads to some division by zero misbehaviour done on the paper.width and paper.height ... see app/load_save.c:diagram_data_load around line 360. Further calculations are done with bogus values for either scaling or width and height or even both, so the results are almost unpredictable ... >but copying and pasting out of it >into a new dia window fails. > >more to the point, export to eps "appears" to work... but using imagemagicks >convert : > convert a.eps b.png >fails for the eps file created... something about no image delegate... [...] The workaround would be to manually correct the scaling value in your file. But at least I have not yet found where it actually got the invalid value in the first place so it will probably break again .... 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list intY has automatically scanned this email with Sophos Anti-Virus (www.inty.net) intY has automatically scanned this email with Sophos Anti-Virus (www.inty.net) _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list intY has automatically scanned this email with Sophos Anti-Virus (www.inty.net) _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list intY has automatically scanned this email with Sophos Anti-Virus (www.inty.net) _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list