Greetings, Chris Green! >> > 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). >> >> That's completely different subject. >> The base format for Dia is SVG, which, by the very nature of it, is >> seamlessly >> scalable with bounds being only the resolution of the presentation medium. >> > But it's *not* "seamlessly scalable" because the individual components > (of *any* of the types of objects that come with it) don't scale as > well as the diagram as a whole.
Not to argue, but to clean up any possible misunderstanding: The fact some shapes are scaling better, than other only tell us about quality of certain shapes, not about quality of the program or application design concept as a whole. > They will scale plus/minus a factor > of two or so but beyond that they really don't work too well. Thus > you *do* need to start with an appropriate sized 'sheet' if you want > to print your diagram or use it as other than a single huge diagram. If you do want to print it, you SHOULD start designing your diagram from setting up a page properties and enabling paging grid visibility. > I really like dia but I think it would be a whole lot more 'likeable' > and generally applicable to casual users if it defaulted to something > more tangible. As a casual user, I don't need any printing abilities of Dia. I draw wormhole maps and simple illustrations intended to be shown as web images. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 11.06.2014, <17:51> Sorry for my terrible english... _______________________________________________ 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
