On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 11:43 -0600, Jim Clark wrote: > Hey folks, > > My 2 mini-euros worth. I use text rotation in Dia all the time. How? > > Well, I never use Dia diagrams as my final format. I always export to > png and use those in my web pages. And fire up Gimp to do my final > touch up. It is easier to crop to the dimensions I need, clean up a > messy arrow, or move text over a pixel or two. I can easily rotate > text (or anything else) in Gimp. > > So all this anguish seems misplaced to me. Dia is not a text, or > graphics, manipulation program.
Dia is a diagramming program, indeed. Part of diagramming well is being able to label your arrows well. For a slanted or vertical arrow, rotated text looks a lot better. While your solution with Gimp may solve the problem for your needs, lot of people use other forms of output, such as Postscript, SVG or LaTeX, where rotating the text can be messy. There's definitely also something to be said for avoiding the roundtrip to another program for final touch-up. That's why I think rotated text is important to get in Dia, even more so than pattern fill and shadows (alas, it is also harder than those). -Lars _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
