Randy, I misspoke about paper size and margins.
The page breaks represent the printed area of a page WITH margins. So a letter size page 8.5x11 (portrait)with 2 inch margins all round means the page breaks represent an area of (8.5-2-2) x (11-2-2) ==> 4.5x7. Or a letter size landscape page of 11x8.5 with 5 inch margins the page breaks represent an area 10x7.5. This way when your diagram covers more than one page you automatically get a print out you could tape together into a full size representation (with scaling applied). You don't have to worry about losing any graphics. 0 inch margins would theoretically put your diagrams at the edges of the paper, but with vagaries of printing it is probably not perfectly dependable - but that is what Dia would be attempting to do. Hopefully, this give you some ideas how to work with it. It is completely flexible in this way if a little weird. You should definitely experiment to see how it goes. When printing I find the Cairo outputs are dependable, and pdf. YMMV. Mike On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 2:11 PM, <rhkra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mike, > > Thanks very much! > > Randy Kramer > > On Sunday, July 31, 2016 01:25:52 PM Michael Ross wrote: > > The paradigm is a little different (well maybe since I don't know how > Visio > > works). You simply make you drawing without concern for canvas size and > > forma the page breaks as needed for printing. You can take the same > > diagram and put all on a 3x5 card or spread it over a 100 8.5x11 sheets. > -- 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) 585-6737 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Mobile and Google Phone michael.e.r...@gmail.com <michael.e.r...@gmail.com>
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