Thanks, Mike!
I actually didn't have any files or shapes to share because I was about
to create some, but if I have other questions, can we add an attachment
on the mailing list messages?
I've actually been working on figuring out why the shapes are coded the
way they are. I copied some into my local shapes folder and couldn't
figure out why my changes would not show up. It took a lot of tweaking
thinking it was not having extents on the svg part, whether line
thickness were not being accepted because in some shapes they're stated
with reals, other integers, and some not at all. It turns out there was
something to do with the prefix on the name of the shapes. I still
couldn't state definitely what I had wrong. It will take some more
testing to figure out how the sheet file finds the shapes (since I
noticed this when I got a 'Duplicate Object" error after a couple of
hours of confusion :-!). (My file was still showing me the one I had
copied even though I had created a new sheet and renamed the shape. Sheesh!)
Thanks for the double-click on the tools tip. I read the whole manual
before asking, but must have missed it. Some let me change the Draw
Background, Text Padding, Text Alignment, Font, Font Size, Flip Horz &
Vert, and others just the Draw background and the Flips. None in the
BPMN Sheet let me change the default Lineweight.
I haven't really used Dia before trying to customize it though, and it
wasn't until I had made my first shape that I learned everything is
brought in at the same size anyway. (It would be nice to learn we can
change this with Python on insertion or something!)
So apparently, it is advice well taken that if I am rigid about font
size or many other things, I might be in trouble!
I wonder if there is anymore information than the manual and the samples
on how to avoid name conflicts and what's supposed to be in the online
XML, and how the seemingly cryptic attachment points are measured. I'll
get the points, but I don't know about the xmlns= part.
Thanks again,
-- Dunn
On 07/25/2014 12:11 PM, Michael Ross wrote:
You should probably share the files of representative shape for people
to talk sensibly about the.
Shapes are created within a 1cm square area (or were when I last tried
to make a shape). If you made them larger, then that could be the
explanation.
However the shape was sized, you should be able to scale it to
whatever size you want.
If you double click on a tool, a properties dialog will arise where
you can set the default properties - such as line weight. I never
worry about font size and just adjust font and page scale to get a
readable output. This is the normal workflow for Dia. I am not sure
what difficulties you will cause yourself by being rigid about font size.
Mike
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:44 PM, dunn <dnaugh...@dunnamin.com
<mailto:dnaugh...@dunnamin.com>> wrote:
Howdy!
I am just learning Dia and was about to try my hand at making some
shapes. I notice the shapes I have used in Dia are very large,
the borders are very thick at 0.1cm and the font is also large at
22.68pt (5/16").
As I make my shapes, I would want to make them so they fit 9 pt
font size (1/8" tall), which is what I consider to be the perfect
size (so studies say for us CAD users), and the borders would be
0.5 mm thick instead of 0.1cm. This means I would make much
smaller shapes. Would anyone be able to use those shapes, or want to?
Are my shapes just very large because I have a default font
setting somewhere that is setting my font so large?
I did see in the faq that people questioned why there fonts were
too small, so I don't know if for some people everything comes out
smaller. Could everything be large because their printing makes
things smaller?
Thanks for the program :-).
-- dunn
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