Chris, The only answer to this question is, maybe - an opinion. OK to one may not seem so to you and vice versa.
On your other quest, one of the main features of Dia compared to the commercial product from M$, is you have the ability to make your own shapes and organize them into palettes as you like them. Have a whack at it. There is Help. I never liked doing them myself, but plenty of people do. Mike On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 07:10:52PM -0700, Octavio Alvarez wrote: > > On 28/03/14 09:06, Chris Green wrote: > > > I have a moderately complex diagram describing the connections on a > > > multiway plug. > > > > > <<snipped>> > > > AGND - The A prints partially over the G > > > VADC - The V prints over the A and the label is shifted to the > right > > > > > > This happens on two different printers so I don't think it's a printer > > > problem. > > > > It's a bug in an underlying library. A workaround has already been > > implemented in Dia, so you should see it fixed when 0.97.3 gets released. > > > > In the meanwhile, you can get around this bug by exporting to some > > format using a non-Cairo filter (like pixbuf-png) and printing the > > resulting image or document. > > > > You can also compile the upcoming 0.97.3 yourself. > > OK, thanks for that, do you know if the 0.97.3 code will compile > fairly painlessly on [x]ubuntu 13.10? I'm happy to pull in some > dependencies but I don't want dozens of them. > > How/where can I get a reasonably stable 0.97.3 beta (or pre-beta)? If > I do:- > git clone git://git.gnome.org/dia > > will I get something OK[ish]? > > -- > Chris Green > _______________________________________________ > 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 * Tell me what it is you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver, "The summer day." 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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