On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 02:00:26PM +0100, Maciej Jaros wrote: > Chris G (2010-12-29 13:08): > >I'm confused (no change there then!) about what the 'Page Break' > >markings do for me. > > > >It took me a while to realise that the solid blue lines *were* the Page > >Breaks and that I could remove them using the Preferences settings. > >That's good as I find them distracting because they sit very close > >to some of the major grid lines on my system. > > > >However I also don't understand what they're for, they don't appear to > >indicate actual paper size blocks on the diagram, on my system they seem > >to be just over 15cm wide (hence the blue line is very close to the 15cm > >grid line) and 24cm high. The default paper size on my system is A4 so > >those dimensions are nothing like the paper size. > > Page Break lines indicate where will the page end if you will print > your diagram. You can change settings in Page Setup. > Yes, but that's the issue/problem. In Page Setup it says I'm using A4 paper which is 21cm x 29.7cm but the page breaks are marked on my diagram at 15cm x 24cm. The margins aren't *that* wide! :-)
> >Final question - is it possible to reset the top left corner of a > >diagram to 0:0 on the rulers? > It's not possible to align elements relative to pages in Dia. If you > really want to you can make a group of elements to be aligned, place > another element in 0:0 and then select the element and the group and > align to left and to top... But you'll probably just want to select > everything and move it. > > Or you can use Page Setup and select "Fit to", but it will not move > your elements it will move page breaks (meaning your diagram, when > printed, should start from upper left corner of the page). > OK, thanks, it wasn't a big problem anyway. I just happened to move something off the the left (so the top left of the diagram became (say) -25:0 and wanted a way to get it back to 0:0 when I brought the element back. I've found that if I exit and restart dia then it does get back to 0:0. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ 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
