Re: I must be doing something(s) wrong

2004-12-01 Thread Mike Ginou
>> > * garbled views - view images seem unstable. Objects change for >> > no >> > apparent reason (size, text). Refresh usually clears it up. >> > This can indicate that a crash is immenient. >> Sometimes I have thicker outlines/borders but I also never used images >> an

Re: I must be doing something(s) wrong

2004-12-01 Thread David Ross
Thanks for your prompt reply. On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 13:35, Alexander wrote: > David Ross schrieb: > > * zoom - 100% magnification is about half of actual size. > > Actual size of what? Having 1600x1400 on a 15" screen causes small objects, > too :-) That's an important point. One that I o

Re: I must be doing something(s) wrong

2004-12-01 Thread Alexander
David Ross schrieb: * zoom - 100% magnification is about half of actual size. Actual size of what? Having 1600x1400 on a 15" screen causes small objects, too :-) * grid - Have not found a combination of settings that are easy to work with for object sizing and layout. Stable gr

I must be doing something(s) wrong

2004-12-01 Thread David Ross
I am new to Dia and would like to use it for software/system/schema modeling. I have had problems with stability (it crashes during extended sessions) and using or understanding how to use basic features, including: * zoom - 100% magnification is about half of actual size. * grid - Hav

Re: Automaticall open new diagram

2004-12-01 Thread Jeffrey Kern
I like the idea of using the empty (new, blank) diagram if it is untouched. If you wanted that new blank diagram, you would have touched it, right? If you wanted another new diagram after opening one into that, you can just do Ctrl+n to get a new, blank diagram. Another idea is, if you click "File

Re: Help! to explain strange behavior

2004-12-01 Thread Jeffrey Kern
As Mike Ginou pointed out to me in an earlier thread, you probably will need the libxslt-dev or libxslt-devel package as well. To keep Dia from complaining on startup. You can find the latest source tarballs and binary RPM packages here: http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/ For me, the problem was that libxs

Re: Help! to explain strange behavior

2004-12-01 Thread loli
On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 07:27:58 +0100, Alexander wrote > loli schrieb: > > I downloaded Dia-0.94.tar.gz and suceeded to compile it: just a message > > about not having libxslt. > > As far as I remember (without any knowledge of dia code) is libxslt some > xsl parsing library (extended stylesheet lang