I regularly move between programs to do what I want, but I would prefer not to. I often annotate graphs and photos - rotated text in Dia would be nice. Glad you like the idea too. I only use Gimp for the perspective function to square up scanned graphs. I like Inkscape better for graphics that don't involve shapes and diagramming (Inkscape arrows are weak, but editing bezier is better). I prefer Dia for most of this.
I wish I could drag and drop images, or better yet get them to update semi-automatically (an update function that can be run with a keystroke or property action) after tormenting them in other programs. I would like to make layers variably transparent. And get better control of the text. I could quit updating to the next level then. I would like to open up Dia and stay in Dia. I don't mean to start a thread about this. Just running off at the mouth. Mike On Nov 12, 2007 1:12 PM, Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > -- Michael Ross ================================= Cycling in Central North Carolina Schwinn Voyageur 11.8 Linear LWB, Greenspeed GTO, BikeE CT, AT
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