Chris, Not every drawing is a circuit diagram. Dia is designed to be general purpose, so some tasks require that you use Dia the way a generalized program requires it.
If you want to do circuit diagrams then the a specific software may very well be easier for that task. However, that software will probably not do the many other things that Dia does do easily. You can create segmented drawings very easily. If you make the page boundaries a contrasting color to the background, then you can tell how the drawing will segment. You can then go around the edges of it and make connection notations so you can match edge to edge. There are even preexisting shapes that work well for this. What you describe is going to be a manual operation because that is how it is - Dia is a general program, and no one has seen fit to automate the feature you cherish from some other software. You are welcome to try and do it if you like. Dia wasn't designed to do it automatically, but is was designed to make it possible for you to write code for it any way you like. On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 09:23:59AM -0400, Michael Ross wrote: > > Right you can show the margin boundaries - if they are set to contrast > > with the background. > > You can change the Scale of the page at the Page Setup A menu to be > > practically infinite if you like that. A The world can fit inside an > A4 > > sheet if you like, or you can adjust it as needs be. > > I think that Dia is infinitely adjust able once you understand the > tools > > and the work flow. > > > Yes, but the trouble is that if you, for example, draw a circuit > diagram and then scale it to print on an A4 page the circuit symbols > very often turn out to be far too small (or, less often, too big). > > Unless the 'drawing area' defaults to something that's a sane size > (e.g. an A4 sheet) scaling things after drawing doesn't do a good job. > > > -- > 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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