On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:05:43PM +0300, Dumitru Ursu wrote: > On 06/10/2014 10:59 PM, Chris Green wrote: > >Well I for one have (more than once) said that I'd like it to be much > >easier than it is at present to print diagrams on A4. > > > >Surely the usual way most people thank about a 'picture of something' > >is one that can be presented fairly sensibly on a sheet of paper. > >Creating a huge diagram and printing bits of it seems an rather odd > >way of going about things. > > > >Also, the 'big diagram printed in separate bits' doesn't produce > >something that's easy to bind into a document. What one wants is > >*separate* diagrams with annotated interconnections, lines simply > >going off the edge to somewhere on another page are not really very > >helpful. > > Yup, it's a user experience problem. I think fexibility is what > developers had in mind, and I agree that a good > program should allow for flexible workflows, and advanced features: > but the defaults should be sensible, oriented towards > common use-cases (one could argue what a common use case is, but > that's not that hard to find out, with a poll or something) > I thinks that's right. The inexperienced user (me, for example) tends to dive in with a diagram that they want to draw before thinking about details of how it will scale when they want to print it or put it into a web page or whatever.
They complete a lovely diagram that looks good on the computer screen and then find it's rather difficult to turn it into what they actually want on paper (or web). -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
