customization
How can I customize dia for default startup properties? Is there a configuration file in which things like text: default font, center/left/right text, size, color ruler on/off, etc. can be selected as default? Gernot D. Kleiter Dept. of Psychology Univ. Salzburg Austria ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
Re: customization
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, gernot kleiter wrote: > How can I customize dia for default startup properties? > Is there a configuration file in which things like > text: default font, center/left/right text, size, color > ruler on/off, > etc. > can be selected as default? A number of diagram defaults can be set in the Preferences dialog (for new diagrams), and default text attributes can be set by double-clicking the text icon and setting the properties there. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I | will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
Re: user defined sheets.
> Another question is: What is the procedure of creating custom sheets with > custom shapes? When I do it like this: > -create shape and save it (in directory ~/.dia/shapes) > -export it to dia shape format > -create new sheet or select any old one. > -add the newly created shape to the sheet. > > There is a message: > > "Several object-types were named shapes abc. > Only the first one will be used. > Some things might not work as expected." The name of a Dia Shape is what appears between the tags they must be different the filename is completely irrelavant. the segfault is highly unlikely to be even remotely connected with this, more likely is that your encoding problem is causing the segfault. I might be able to attempt an answer to your other question later if i can spare the time but please do try more things and provide more detail. Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
Noob can't print right on Win32....
Hello! I'm just starting to play with Dia after much fighting with many other similar apps and I'm very happy. BUT printing is all messed up. When I print a page the right hand 2-3cm is chopped off. If I reset the print margins I see no diference. If I swap to landscape mode I see no difference (The orientation doesn't change) If I set landscape in Dia AND the printer Setup it's the right way around but still too big. If I change the scale I can make things *almost* the right size but I can never seem to get a diagram to stay on a single page. I'm working on Win32 using the installer from http://dia-installer.sourceforge.net/ (0.90) I'm in the US so I'm using letter sized paper. I'm using two networked printers, a HP LJIIISi and a HP LJ8500DN. I have installed GhostScript to try and trouble shoot but it looks like it's Dia's output that's wrong rather than the printsetup. Exported EPS files have chunks missing off of the sides. I've had a look through the mail archives and didn't find anything that really relates to the problems that I have been having. So does anyone have any advice? Is this a common problem? I don't want to go submitting bug reports for something that's just a product of my screwy machine. Any thoughts most welcome. Nick ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
Re: Noob can't print right on Win32....
> I'm in the US so I'm using letter sized paper. AFAIK, that is exactly your problem. US Letter is narrower than A4 so the on screen lines will be misleading. Hopefully you can workaround it. "The thing about standards is there are so many to choose from" Patches welcome of course but from my limited knowledge of Dia it is unlikely that this will be fixed anytime soon, same goes for a non-metric version of Dia. I wonder if Gnome Print works with Gtk only apps yet? i heard months ago that work was being done to seperate it from Gnome... Sorry i cant be more helpful, back to making more Dia Shapes Sincerely Alan Horkan ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
Re: Noob can't print right on Win32....
> > I'm in the US so I'm using letter sized paper. > AFAIK, that is exactly your problem. > > US Letter is narrower than A4 > so the on screen lines will be misleading. I used to live in the UK and I've run across this one before ;) Infact ANSI A paper is .6cm wider and 1.8cm shorter. This is what confuzes me. If this was the problem the diagram should be to narrow and too long... not too wide. however this may be why I always get a blank sheet of paper with every print. Also when I change back to A4 (Page setup appears to have paper size support) the problem is still there (I'm using GhostScript to view)! And landscape mode is totaly whacked out no matter what the size.. I'm wondering if this is a Dia thing or a Win32 Dia thing. > Hopefully you can workaround it. My current tactic is to eport to PNG... Not very handy but it works for now... > Sorry i cant be more helpful, back to making more Dia Shapes Thanks for the thought ;) Nick ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
Re: Noob can't print right on Win32....
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Nick Fisher wrote: >> > I'm in the US so I'm using letter sized paper. >> AFAIK, that is exactly your problem. >> >> US Letter is narrower than A4 >> so the on screen lines will be misleading. > I used to live in the UK and I've run across this one before ;) Infact > ANSI A paper is .6cm wider and 1.8cm shorter. This is what confuzes > me. If this was the problem the diagram should be to narrow and too > long... not too wide. however this may be why I always get a blank sheet > of paper with every print. Also when I change back to A4 (Page setup > appears to have paper size support) the problem is still there (I'm using > GhostScript to view)! And landscape mode is totaly whacked out no matter > what the size.. I'm wondering if this is a Dia thing or a Win32 Dia > thing. I've been using Linux Dia with Letter paper for a long time without this problem, so I'm guessing it's a Win32 Dia problem. Probably the same as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85831 >> Hopefully you can workaround it. > My current tactic is to eport to PNG... > Not very handy but it works for now... Oh, that's horrible. Can you export to EPS and use Ghostscript to print? -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I | will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
Re: Noob can't print right on Win32....
> >> > I'm in the US so I'm using letter sized paper. > >> AFAIK, that is exactly your problem. > >> > >> US Letter is narrower than A4 > >> so the on screen lines will be misleading. > > I used to live in the UK and I've run across this one before ;) > Infact > > ANSI A paper is .6cm wider and 1.8cm shorter. This is what > confuzes > > me. If this was the problem the diagram should be to narrow and too > > long... not too wide. however this may be why I always get a blank > sheet > > of paper with every print. Also when I change back to A4 (Page setup > > appears to have paper size support) the problem is still there (I'm > using > > GhostScript to view)! And landscape mode is totaly whacked out no > matter > > what the size.. I'm wondering if this is a Dia thing or a Win32 Dia > > thing. > > I've been using Linux Dia with Letter paper for a long time without > this > problem, so I'm guessing it's a Win32 Dia problem. Probably the same > as > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85831 OOo Nicely found. I had a rummage in Buzilla but I guess I missed that one! > >> Hopefully you can workaround it. > > My current tactic is to eport to PNG... > > Not very handy but it works for now... > Oh, that's horrible. Can you export to EPS and use Ghostscript to > print? No.. the EPS export is just as bad as the prints. SVG however is starting to look very promising! Though I may have to install Illustrator to format them :( I was trying to stay away from expensive bloatware by using Dia. Know of any good SVG viewer/printers on Win32? The only free one I've found is the Adobe SVG viewer and that only appears to work in IE. Thanks ;) At least I *know* that this is a Win32 bug and I'm not just doing something silly. Nick ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
Re: Noob can't print right on Win32....
What I've done in the past to work around this is set my page to letter in all places necessary, then gone to the page setup dialog, clicked "Fit to" 1 by 1, or whatever I wanted to fit to, then clicked back up to the scale option and reduced it slightly from there. It's kind of a hassle, but it seems less so that exporting to SVG and installing Adobe Illustrator or some such. HTH, Levi ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
Status report on dia ???
Hi, There has been a little quiet on the dia-list lately especially has there been far between the Changelog reports, which made me think a little on the status of dia-cvs. So, as a both interested and courious dia-user, would I like to know how far the different porting projects (Pango & GObject - any others) has come and what is missing to be completed. Are there any plugins in beta state which needs a hand to be working and (as good as) bugfree. Can we expect a release as an extra christmas present :) or does the core-team continue whith the one release policy as usual ;) Torben Beskyt din computer mod virus og misbrug! Læs mere i Yahoo! Sikkerhedscenter på www.yahoo.dk/sikkerhedscenter ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
SVG Import [Re: Noob can't print right on Win32....]
> I was trying to stay away from expensive bloatware by using Dia. Know of > any good SVG viewer/printers on Win32? The only free one I've found is the > Adobe SVG viewer and that only appears to work in IE. there are mozilla builds with SVG support but it is not great. To change the subject, I recently noticed that Dia.shape files are primarily SVG (and filed some bug reports requesting that Sketch and Sodipodi should be able to export dia.shapes). I spent a large chunk of yesterday evening taking SVG files from OpenOffice, and changing them into .shape files so that Dia would import them. All i had to do was put the svg: namespace in front of every SVG tag and change the colour values from rgb(0,0,0) to hexidecimal values then stick a few of the Dia tags and other bits and pieces in either side of it. Despite being really tedious and showing how desperately i need to learn a good scripting language it was easy and worked really well. How about turning on whatever SVG import there is in the next release? If Dia is at least able to import the SVG that Dia itself exports that should be plenty good enough to start with. I am trying to figure out how to get OpenOffice.org to batch convert WMF files to SVG and then i will have a huge amount of clipart with which to test the the SVG importer in Dia. I was also able to use the GDI in windows to paste shapes from Visio to OpenOffice and then export them as SVG, but as Dia would not be able to use these shapes it only served to prove an intersting possibility. Perhaps the windows version of Dia could make more use of GDI? (i dont intend to file a bug report or feature request for this though). Umm ... yeah, thinking out loud and stuff. I had better go and finished off at least one of the sets of shapes i have so that i can submit them if and when there is a release. Please let there be a release soon, compiling stuff scares me *. Later Alan > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html > Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia * not really. ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
Re: SVG Import [Re: Noob can't print right on Win32....]
> I spent a large chunk of yesterday evening taking SVG files from > OpenOffice, and changing them into .shape files so that Dia would > import > them. > All i had to do was put the svg: namespace in front of every SVG tag > and > change the colour values from rgb(0,0,0) to hexidecimal values then > stick > a few of the Dia tags and other bits and pieces in either > side of > it. Despite being really tedious and showing how desperately i need > to > learn a good scripting language it was easy and worked really well. please post some examples, xslt and perl are perfect for this. = James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
Re: Noob can't print right on Win32....
One of the abiword developers noticed these comments and asked me to pass on these ideas as it may be similar to problems that Abiword has encountered. http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/May/0085.html (i am just the messenger i and i rarely print anything so i am even less helpful than my usual not particularly helpful with this kind of problem) Later Alan ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
Re: Status report on dia ???
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Torben H. Nielsen wrote: > Hi, > There has been a little quiet on the dia-list lately especially has > there been far between the Changelog reports, which made me think a > little on the status of dia-cvs. > > So, as a both interested and courious dia-user, would I like to know > how far the different porting projects (Pango & GObject - any others) > has come and what is missing to be completed. GObject porting of the renderers is done, except perhaps for some Win32 stuff, which I'm not sure of. I still have a horrible problem with the difference in font names between gdk (X) pango and pangoft2. I plan to either make standard X rendering use pangoft2 or trim the font namespace to those that match. Using pangoft2 all over requires more #hell because Win32 can't use freetype. Trimming the namespace is an ugly, ugly hack that's sure to break in a number of ways. Cyrille has done some work on inputmethods, but I haven't heard anything from him for a while, and the input methods don't seem to be working right now > Are there any plugins in beta state which needs a hand to be working > and (as good as) bugfree. Not that I can think of offhand, but check the bug database. > Can we expect a release as an extra christmas present :) or does the > core-team continue whith the one release policy as usual ;) I would like to do a christmas release, if at all possible. Cyrille? -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I | will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
Re: SVG Import [Re: Noob can't print right on Win32....]
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, James Michael DuPont wrote: > Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:36:08 -0800 (PST) > From: James Michael DuPont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: SVG Import [Re: Noob can't print right on Win32] > > > > I spent a large chunk of yesterday evening taking SVG files from > > OpenOffice, and changing them into .shape files so that Dia would > > import > > them. > > All i had to do was put the svg: namespace in front of every SVG tag > > and > > change the colour values from rgb(0,0,0) to hexidecimal values then > > stick > > a few of the Dia tags and other bits and pieces in either > > side of > > it. Despite being really tedious and showing how desperately i need > > to > > learn a good scripting language it was easy and worked really well. > > please post some examples, xslt and perl are perfect for this. If i can figure out what happened to my laptop network settings i will show the before and after of the SVG files i converted. if actually i get around to putting together any scripts (not likely) i will certainly make them available. Is mise Alan ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
Re: Status report on dia ???
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Torben H. Nielsen wrote: > > Are there any plugins in beta state which needs a hand to be working > and (as good as) bugfree. Ha, Alan mentions one right there: The SVG importer needs some kind of work, talk with him about what's up. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I | will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
noise: Freetype and Windows
This is probably just noise, so forgive me. But I was puzzled by the claim that FreeType cannot be used under Win32 and the claim "Apart from a standard ANSI C library, FreeType 2 doesn't have any external dependencies and can be compiled and installed on its own on any kind of system." http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/index.html#requirements Cheers, Alan Isaac ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
RE: Noob can't print right on Win32....
> -Original Message- > From: Nick Fisher [mailto:Nick@;nickdafish.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 29 October 2002 6:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Alan Horkan > Subject: Re: Noob can't print right on Win32 > > [snip] > I'm wondering if this is a Dia thing or a Win32 Dia thing. haven't tried Dia on linux in a long time but I have the exact same problem with Dia win32 try using the scaling feature in Page Setup i've been using '40' but it'll depend on your drawing > > Hopefully you can workaround it. > My current tactic is to eport to PNG... > Not very handy but it works for now... i was doing this at first as well but got sick to death of it :) regards, Daniel ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
Re: noise: Freetype and Windows
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Alan G. Isaac wrote: > This is probably just noise, so forgive me. > But I was puzzled by the claim that FreeType > cannot be used under Win32 and the claim > "Apart from a standard ANSI C library, FreeType 2 doesn't > have any external dependencies and can be compiled and > installed on its own on any kind of system." > http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/index.html#requirements Well, our main Win32 guy, Hans Breuer, said this the last time I suggested using all FreeType: - It is currently broken (just once more: please read 'Heads up on Pango Head') cause it uses fontconfig which appears to work on X but IMHO needs a complete rewrite to fit into the win32 platform. Remember on win32 there already is a built-in font configuration which does not require an *nix like config files but provides device independent font matching (same code can be used to render to display or printer or to wmf). This exactly is what the win32 specific Dia print code does. - The "Heads up on Pango Head" mentioned is a thread on gtk-i18n-list and gtk-devel-list. It's not FreeType itself (sorry if I made it look that way), but the Pango interface to FreeType. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I | will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
Re: noise: Freetype and Windows
> It is currently broken (just once more: please read 'Heads up on > Pango Head') cause it uses fontconfig which appears to work on X > but IMHO needs a complete rewrite to fit into the win32 platform. But it's only HEAD of Pango that uses fontconfig; shouldn't pangoft2 in the pango-1-0 branch still work fine? Does Dia really require GTK+ and Pango HEAD? --tml ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
Re: noise: Freetype and Windows
--- Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Alan G. Isaac wrote: > > This is probably just noise, so forgive me. > > But I was puzzled by the claim that FreeType > > cannot be used under Win32 and the claim > > "Apart from a standard ANSI C library, FreeType 2 doesn't > > have any external dependencies and can be compiled and > > installed on its own on any kind of system." > > http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/index.html#requirements > > Well, our main Win32 guy, Hans Breuer, said this the last time I > suggested > using all FreeType: > > - > It is currently broken (just once more: please read 'Heads up on > Pango Head') > cause it uses fontconfig which appears to work on X but IMHO needs a > complete rewrite to fit into the win32 platform. Remember on win32 > there already is a built-in font configuration which does not require > > an *nix like config files but provides device independent font > matching > (same code can be used to render to display or printer or to wmf). > This exactly is what the win32 specific Dia print code does. > - > > The "Heads up on Pango Head" mentioned is a thread on gtk-i18n-list > and > gtk-devel-list. It's not FreeType itself (sorry if I made it look > that > way), but the Pango interface to FreeType. This is interesting, currently I am working on free type, getting other errors, but am planning on porting it and pango. If dia does not need it, then ok. Otherwise, there is defoma, the debian font manager. Otherwise I am willing to give it a try, please tell me more. BTW, check out the current status of the debian mingw32 report at http://introspector.sourceforge.net/dia_win32.htm The newest zlib, libpng are waiting for testers, any takers? All the instructions are on the webpage. Currently I am working on gtk+, libtiff, libjpeg and freetype (later pango). freetype has been ported to libsdl. There is also a new mailing list to cover this port, http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/introspector-mingw32 Thanks to Mikes Garnsey for all his help, and Tor Lud. for his continuing support and kind words. Hans for his great work as well. please help the effort to build a free enviroment to write software in for windows under debian. The cygwin32 port of debian has enough done to be used with my packages, if anyone wants to help test that, I have some tests as well. Mike mike = James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
Re: noise: Freetype and Windows
--- Tor Lillqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is currently broken (just once more: please read 'Heads up on > > Pango Head') cause it uses fontconfig which appears to work on X > > but IMHO needs a complete rewrite to fit into the win32 platform. > > But it's only HEAD of Pango that uses fontconfig; shouldn't pangoft2 > in the pango-1-0 branch still work fine? Does Dia really require GTK+ > and Pango HEAD? Hmm, I am using the debian packages. apt-src install to get the packages to port. This also resolved the dependancies. The build depends of libpango 1.0 in debian is : debhelper (>> 4.0.0), libfreetype6-dev (>= 2.1.2), xlibs-dev, libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.0.6), pkg-config, defoma (>= 0.11.1) Do you know about? gdk-imlib1-dev mike = James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
Re: noise: Freetype and Windows
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, James Michael DuPont wrote: > > --- Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Alan G. Isaac wrote: >> > This is probably just noise, so forgive me. >> > But I was puzzled by the claim that FreeType >> > cannot be used under Win32 and the claim >> > "Apart from a standard ANSI C library, FreeType 2 doesn't >> > have any external dependencies and can be compiled and >> > installed on its own on any kind of system." >> > http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/index.html#requirements >> >> Well, our main Win32 guy, Hans Breuer, said this the last time I >> suggested >> using all FreeType: >> >> - >> It is currently broken (just once more: please read 'Heads up on >> Pango Head') >> cause it uses fontconfig which appears to work on X but IMHO needs a >> complete rewrite to fit into the win32 platform. Remember on win32 >> there already is a built-in font configuration which does not require >> >> an *nix like config files but provides device independent font >> matching >> (same code can be used to render to display or printer or to wmf). >> This exactly is what the win32 specific Dia print code does. >> - >> >> The "Heads up on Pango Head" mentioned is a thread on gtk-i18n-list >> and >> gtk-devel-list. It's not FreeType itself (sorry if I made it look >> that >> way), but the Pango interface to FreeType. > > This is interesting, > currently I am working on free type, getting other errors, but am > planning on porting it and pango. If dia does not need it, then ok. > Otherwise, there is defoma, the debian font manager. Otherwise I am > willing to give it a try, please tell me more. As I understand it, Win32 Dia only requires Freetype for EPS export. Printing is done via the native printing interface, and antialiasing via the native font interface. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I | will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
Re: noise: Freetype and Windows
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > It is currently broken (just once more: please read 'Heads up on > > Pango Head') cause it uses fontconfig which appears to work on X > > but IMHO needs a complete rewrite to fit into the win32 platform. > > But it's only HEAD of Pango that uses fontconfig; shouldn't pangoft2 > in the pango-1-0 branch still work fine? Does Dia really require GTK+ > and Pango HEAD? No, it just requires the 1.0 branch. Can anybody confirm whether pangoft2 in the 1.0 branch works under Windows? -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I | will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
