On 08/09/2011 13:49, Andreas Spindler wrote: > > Hello, > > just a quick note. I started to use Dia on Windows. As an exercise I tried to > create an UML diagram. > After five minutes I had five boxes of different sizes, different font sizes.
Hi ! just a quick response :) As an experienced programmer and a specialist, you should know that more informations are needed in order to get some help (Interesting reading: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html). What versions of windows/Dia are you using ? > Nothing can be changed or aligned. Did you try the Objects->Align menu ? It's mentioned in the tutorial available here http://projects.gnome.org/dia/diatut/all/all.html#L015 and in the manual available here http://dia-installer.de/doc/en/objects-chapter.html#aligning-objects > Dia just does something random. Sorry to say that, but after playing an hour > with the program I found it only frustrating. > > How can I get this diagram to be printed on one page, with equally sized > boxes > and the same font size? This seems > to be the least thing it should do for all diagram elements. I really like > the > specific properties dialog boxes for the different UML types, > where I can edit operations and attributes. But the result is unusable. > Please > see the attached screenshot. > > Or, what am I missing? > > First I used "T" to create a title. The title is small, no possibility to > make > it bigger. I can not reproduce: using properties dialog box of a "standard - Text" object i am able to modify the size of font. > I created a class and a box popped on the screen, so huge, I couldn't even > read > it. Then I created another class, > and two others. All use different fonts. So i can not reproduce problems you encounter using dia 0.97.1 (with Linux or Windows). > This is one of these programs where I > ask myself: "Are the > programmers really use this themselves?" Maybe you should try to fix one of bugs you described: write a patch and then become a programmer who was first an user :) Or maybe you could do nothing in order to improve (as a developper, yes you can!) what you think is wrong and continue to whine /o\ Pierre-Louis _______________________________________________ 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
