I've done that. Nothing like a good mea culpa to clear the pipes. I am good at them, sigh. I always hope the folks on the receiving end appreciate them.
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com>wrote: > 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 > > -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk michael.e.r...@gmail.com <michael.e.r...@gmail.com>
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