On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:38:16 +0200 Hans Breuer <h...@breuer.org> wrote:
> At 11.04.2013 06:26, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:43:02 +0200 > > Hans Breuer<h...@breuer.org> wrote: > > > >> At 10.04.2013 20:48, Steve Litt wrote: > [...] > >>> > >>> As you know, previous Dia versions had a "size to selection" > >>> button for page size, but current versinos got rid of that > >>> feature.[...] > >> > >> You said that before and apparently are not aware of my answer: > >> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2013-February/msg00031.html > >> > >> It does not become more true by prefixing that statetment with "As > >> you know". At least I am not aware of any "size to selection" > >> button having been available in Dia in the last twelve years. > >> Please be more specific what you did before - especially how - and > >> what is not working anymore in which version. > > > > > > I'll tell you what Hans, > > > > I'll go to the not inconsiderable trouble of: > > > > 1) Find a spare computer > > 2) Find a copy of Ubuntu 10.04 or whatever > > 3) Take a complete set of screenshots of the facility to size the > > page to selection > > 4) Make the screenshots available to the list > > > > I'll do all that if you promise to put back the functionality that > > the screenshots reveal. > > > The only thing I can promise it that I wont try to fix something that > I dont understand. > I have a lot of Dia versions readily available for testing, but I > simply cant imaginge where you have seen the button you are talking > about. Maybe you had a custom script or plug-in providing all the > "facility to size the page to selection"? > Also I'm not interested at all in screenshots, so please dont bother > to create these. Especially not from something which was never part > of an official Dia version. Screenshots wont help you to get the > feature back. Finding the source of that feature might. Whoops. I'm wrong. You're right. Sorry. I had forgotten how I REALLY used dia back in the old days. I did further research and found that this "size to selection" property was in Inkscape, not dia. I used to export dia to svg and then resize the drawing in Inkscape before converting to .pdf. In order that it size correctly, I'd put a tiny translucent circle just upper left and lower right of the dia drawing, in order that the finished .pdf's borders wouldn't touch the lines of the drawing itself. Then I ran it through my dia2pdf script: ============================== #!/bin/bash dianame=$1 gname=`echo $dianame | sed -e "s/\..*$//"` pdfname=$gname.pdf echo Converting $dianame to $pdfname inkscape --export-area-drawing --export-pdf=$pdfname $dianame acroread $pdfname ============================== I'm sorry that my forgetting how I converted caused me to claim a lost dia feature that never existed. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance _______________________________________________ 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
