I annotate charts by creating a layer and placing notes there. It is free form and messy but it works.
It would be sweet to have a notes field in every property pop up. Or Notes pop up in the right click menu. Or alternately, hyperlinks in a Dia. I would love to capture more depth of detail without ruining the graphic presentation. For me Dia would then be a great notepad for my work. But, I am happy anyway. Thanks for all your hard work. On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Ken Springer <snowsh...@q.com> wrote: > > > On 4/21/14 7:07 AM, Dumitru Ursu wrote: > >> On 04/21/2014 11:09 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> >>> I want to make a chart of historical information, and would like to >>>> >>>>> annotate the chart entry with additional information. >>>>> >>>> I doubt you want to supply Dia along with your chart... >>> Either you picked a wrong tool for the job, or you should rethink your >>> expectations and adapt to the desired result with the tool on hand in >>> mind. >>> >> I agree with Andrey, you are probably using the wrong tool for the job: >> I suppose what you need is Inkscape, a vector graphics program: you can >> slice the svg and make a web page out of it, or animate the SVG directly >> (Inkscape doesn't support that directly). A bit of Javascript would do >> what you need. >> Also, consider Synfig as a tool for animations. >> >> Dima. >> > > I do not know why, but I never received Andrey's reply. If there's more > to the response, I do not have it. > > Replying to Dima's message in reverse order, Synfig is definitely not the > tool I need. That is not the type of "animation" I'm looking for. > > I'm creating an organizational chart structure of information. If I > choose to, I want to be able to click on an object, in this case a > rectangle, and have another box, or window, open somewhere that gives me > additional information about the data in the rectangle. The information > the box/window will be the same type of information you would get from a > footnote, endnote, or bibliography. It will simply tell me where I got the > information from. > > > > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Ken Springer > > "All progress depends upon the unreasonable person." > George Bernard Shaw > > "Cheap prices make for cheap goods; cheap goods make for > cheap men; and cheap men make for a cheap country!" > President William McKinley > > http://www.greeleynet.com/~wordwork/airpage.htm > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > _______________________________________________ > 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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