Re: 0.95-pre1 bug with Arc connectors.

2006-02-15 Thread Steffen Macke
> > Make a new diagram > > Draw an arc between two adjacent grid points > > Move the arc midpoint back and forth -- on one side it disappears, on > > the other it's there. I can confirm this problem. Added bug report #331372 to track it. Steffen ___ Dia

Re: 0.95-pre1 Problem printing in Windows.

2006-02-15 Thread Steffen Macke
> However, if I set typical margins (say 1" all around), Dia scales the page > up to fill an entire piece of paper. (Despite Scale: set to 100%, which in > my mind should not change zoom at all). I can confirm this problem and filed bug #331371 to keep track of it. Steffen ___

Re: 0.95-pre1 bug with Arc connectors.

2006-02-15 Thread Rob McDonald
> > On 0.95-pre1 Windows, arc connections sometimes vanish. This behaves > > somewhat like a problem with a trig function. Maybe a classic atan vs. > > atan2 issue. Basically, when you grab the control point and try to adjust > > how curved an arc is, for some ranges of arc, the line disappears.

Re: 0.95-pre1 bug with Arc connectors.

2006-02-15 Thread Lars Clausen
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 10:55 -0500, Rob McDonald wrote: > > the Dia for Windows 0.95-pre1 installer is available from > > http://dia-installer.sourceforge.net > > > I'm not sure if this is a Windows problem, or a problem general to > 0.95-pre1. > > On 0.95-pre1 Windows, arc connections sometimes

0.95-pre1 Problem printing in Windows.

2006-02-15 Thread Rob McDonald
If I go into Page Setup and set the Dia margins to zero all the way around, Dia prints to an appropriate scale. However, if I set typical margins (say 1" all around), Dia scales the page up to fill an entire piece of paper. (Despite Scale: set to 100%, which in my mind should not change zoom at al

Re: PyDia and Metapost

2006-02-15 Thread Rob McDonald
> However, the vertical positioning still seems to be off by about the height > of a lower case letter. Baseline vs. character center. > > Rob In render_metapost.c , in the function draw_string , there is a switch based on Dia's alignment parameter. The comment says /* We use the "

0.95-pre1 bug with Arc connectors.

2006-02-15 Thread Rob McDonald
> the Dia for Windows 0.95-pre1 installer is available from > http://dia-installer.sourceforge.net I'm not sure if this is a Windows problem, or a problem general to 0.95-pre1. On 0.95-pre1 Windows, arc connections sometimes vanish. This behaves somewhat like a problem with a trig function. Ma

Re: PyDia and Metapost

2006-02-15 Thread Rob McDonald
> > First, a simple question. What the heck does the font size in Dia mean? > > Visually, a font size (cmr10) of 0.30 looks to be about 10pt on screen in > > Dia. It comes out about 18pt in LaTeX through MetaPost. Also, I think the > > positioning issue is as simple as positioning the text using