Re: Page Breaks - what are they for?

2010-12-29 Thread Michael Ross
It adds up every time I do it. I am thinking calculator, too. Maybe you could provide the pertinent screen dumps: workspace with zoom level and rulers, Page Setup, Preferences/Grid Lines, Diagram Properties. On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Chris G wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:26:16PM -

Re: Page Breaks - what are they for?

2010-12-29 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:26:16PM -0500, Michael Ross wrote: >I probably said that three different ways in the prior messages I sent. I >am not encouraged that you will read my replies with interest. > ... and I'm thinking exactly the same in the other direction! :-) Surely the page wi

Re: Page Breaks - what are they for?

2010-12-29 Thread Michael Ross
I probably said that three different ways in the prior messages I sent. I am not encouraged that you will read my replies with interest. On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Chris G wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:05:16PM -0500, Michael Ross wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Chri

Crossing wires on circuit diagrams - how to show?

2010-12-29 Thread Chris G
How do people here show crossing wires on circuit diagrams in dia? Do you simply use the convention that a pair of wires crossing each other on the diagram are not connected and junctions shown as a T are connected? I prefer to show a little 'loop' where one wire crosses another and have tried a

Re: Page Breaks - what are they for?

2010-12-29 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:05:16PM -0500, Michael Ross wrote: >On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Chris G <[1...@isbd.net> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 04:06:03PM +0100, Maciej Jaros wrote: > > Chris G (2010-12-29 14:17): > > >>>It took me a while to realise that the solid

Re: Page Breaks - what are they for?

2010-12-29 Thread Michael Ross
The page breaks are NOT the paper size - they are the paper size minus the margins you have set. On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Chris G wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 04:06:03PM +0100, Maciej Jaros wrote: > > Chris G (2010-12-29 14:17): > > >>>It took me a while to realise that the solid bl

Re: Page Breaks - what are they for?

2010-12-29 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:13:01AM -0500, Michael Ross wrote: >If you want all your Dia to be on one page then just work within the page >breaks. >It won't matter if a particular page has 0:0 at a corner or not. > My diagrams are unlikely to be printed, they're for reference on the

Re: Page Breaks - what are they for?

2010-12-29 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 04:06:03PM +0100, Maciej Jaros wrote: > Chris G (2010-12-29 14:17): > >>>It took me a while to realise that the solid blue lines *were* the Page > >>>Breaks and that I could remove them using the Preferences settings. > >>>That's good as I find them distracting because they

Re: Page Breaks - what are they for?

2010-12-29 Thread Michael Ross
You can ignore the 0:0 location. Draw your diagrams anywhere on the desktop and the page breaks will show you where the pages will break - taking into account the margins. If the margins are 25mm then you will have your page size minus 50mm (left and right, top and bottom). It wouldn't make much

Re: Page Breaks - what are they for?

2010-12-29 Thread Maciej Jaros
Chris G (2010-12-29 14:17): On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 02:00:26PM +0100, Maciej Jaros wrote: Chris G (2010-12-29 13:08): I'm confused (no change there then!) about what the 'Page Break' markings do for me. It took me a while to realise that the solid blue lines *were* the Page Breaks and that I c

Re: Page Breaks - what are they for?

2010-12-29 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 02:00:26PM +0100, Maciej Jaros wrote: > Chris G (2010-12-29 13:08): > >I'm confused (no change there then!) about what the 'Page Break' > >markings do for me. > > > >It took me a while to realise that the solid blue lines *were* the Page > >Breaks and that I could remove the

Re: Page Breaks - what are they for?

2010-12-29 Thread Michael Ross
Here are some excerpts from earlier page break questions. There is an archive of mail, but I never use it so I have no advise on getting to it. Also, you can hide the breaks by making them the same as you background color. If you never print your diagrams (I mostly use screen dumps) you can just

Re: Getting the middle of an object to snap to grid - how?

2010-12-29 Thread Michael Ross
The extents of the resistor symbol snap to the grid not the center of it. If the grid isn't congruent with the symbol then the legs don't end up on grid intersections, but the centers l of the peaks may do. However, a line end point - bezier, zzline, polyline line, all will snap to the leg end if

Re: Page Breaks - what are they for?

2010-12-29 Thread Maciej Jaros
Chris G (2010-12-29 13:08): I'm confused (no change there then!) about what the 'Page Break' markings do for me. It took me a while to realise that the solid blue lines *were* the Page Breaks and that I could remove them using the Preferences settings. That's good as I find them distracting beca

Re: Getting the middle of an object to snap to grid - how?

2010-12-29 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 03:24:01PM -0700, Arv Evans wrote: > Hello > > One reason for having resistors, and other electronic components, > snap to the grid is to make it easy to snap a connecting line or > component to the end of that resistor. For this reason it makes > more sense for the resist

Re: Getting the middle of an object to snap to grid - how?

2010-12-29 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 05:34:26PM -0500, Michael Ross wrote: > With the grid the way I have it I can't even get to connect the line to > the resistor because the centre line of the resistor is between grid > lines. > > I have to turn 'Snap to Grid' off to connect the line to t

Page Breaks - what are they for?

2010-12-29 Thread Chris G
I'm confused (no change there then!) about what the 'Page Break' markings do for me. It took me a while to realise that the solid blue lines *were* the Page Breaks and that I could remove them using the Preferences settings. That's good as I find them distracting because they sit very close to so