On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Luigi Bossio <bossio.lu...@yahoo.de> wrote: > with Dia for the first time (it’s a fabulous program) but now I need to > export that diagram to my MS Word 2010. I tried by doing it with exporting > but either I didn’t do it correctly or it just doesn’t work. I need to > export that to Word otherwise your program is useless to me.
You can export to jpeg or png and then insert the picture into Word. Word is not particularly stable when handling linked images (or too many images) so I would recommend opening the exported image with any Windows program than can read-it and has a copy to clipboard function and then pasting the image as a Windows Metafile (using paste-special in Word). Back in the days I used Windows I used to keep a companion PowerPoint presentation with all the images contained in a doc. This is because Word would sometimes freak out and lose all the images with a crossed X and I would lose al my images. Once I lost 2 months of work and backups did not help. With a companion presentation it is easy to import images and then copying a slide and pasting it as a windows metafile in Word. It works pretty well and you can keep your images somewhat stable in one place that is NOT M$ Word. Fortunately I haven't used Windows for many years and I now code my all my large docs in Docbook directly keeping everything organized. For short documents and small manuals I used LibreOffice but it sucks just as much or more than Word or any WYSIWYG Word processor for that matter. Good luck, -- Alejandro Imass _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
