Re: Question

2013-02-14 Thread David Friedman
Export as .emf and you can drop it right into a Word doc using Insert | Picture. - dhfx On Thursday 14/02/2013 at 14:00, Steffen Macke wrote: Hi, On 02/14/2013 06:21 AM, Yidong Li wrote: I just downloaded latest Dia and going to use it to draw a flow chart. How can I embedded a "Dia" fi

Re: DIA: How to change default text point size?

2013-02-09 Thread David Friedman
Thanks. It worked. - dhf On Thursday 07/02/2013 at 20:59, Michael Ross wrote: All the tools have default properties you can change by double clicking on them in the tool palette. On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:47 PM, David Friedman wrote: Whenever I use the text tool, it comes up with a

DIA: How to change default text point size?

2013-02-07 Thread David Friedman
Whenever I use the text tool, it comes up with a default size of (IIRC) 22.68 points. Is there a way to change this default value? David Friedman ___ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at

RE: Sharp lines - Sub and super -scripts

2012-09-28 Thread David Friedman
You can export from Dia as an Extended Metafile (.emf) and drop it into a Word doc. - dhf _ On Friday 28/09/2012 at 08:55, "Panoutsopoulos, Basile (Computer Electronics and Graphics Tech)" wrote: Michael, I am sorry, I was not clear. I mean blurred by “not sharp”. I want to prepa

Re: Assistance Request

2011-11-22 Thread David Friedman
Does this only affect printing from Dia? How is Dia's print path different? --- Original message --- Subject: Re: Assistance Request From: Michael Ross To: discussions about usage and development of dia Date: Tuesday, 22/11/2011 11:05 It is odd that several computers suddenly have the

Re: Dia: Why is it so hard to do simple things?

2011-09-11 Thread David Friedman
I generally use Dia to produce figures for inclusion in engineering documents, exporting as .emf which can be dropped right into a Word doc. In this case the size and page divisions are not critical since Word will scale the figure to fit; here the advantage of vector vs. raster graphics is def

Re: Saving and sending Dia Flow Diagrams

2011-03-10 Thread David Friedman
To embed drawings in Word, try exporting in .emf format. Save your work also as a .dia in case you want to reload it later. - dhfx --- Original message --- Subject: Saving and sending Dia Flow Diagrams From: Christine Estes To: Date: Thursday, 10/03/2011 12:13 Hello, Several of us that

Re: Text anchoring points

2011-02-16 Thread David Friedman
I have just the opposite request. I'd like to turn off the anchoring points in the middle of lines, etc. because they're always grabbing things I don't want them to. Hard to handle sticky stuff without everything sticking to it! David Friedman Austin, TX - On Wednesda

Re: Problem installing Dia 0.97.1: "libatk1.0-0 dependencyunsatisfiable"

2011-02-08 Thread David Friedman
uot;libatk1.0-0 dependencyunsatisfiable" From: Steffen Macke To: discussions about usage and development of dia Date: Tuesday, 08/02/2011 13:52 Hi David, On 02/07/2011 04:52 AM, David Friedman wrote: I'm trying to install from the dia_0.97.1-2ubuntu1_i386.deb package on Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy). When I

Re: snap to a line (or snap to grid?)

2011-02-08 Thread David Friedman
ng-point, and even though both ends are supposedly snapped to the same grid line, the values are unequal enough that at certain magnifications, the nearest-pixel value is different for the two. Has anyone else seen this? David Friedman ___ dia-l

Problem installing Dia 0.97.1: "libatk1.0-0 dependency unsatisfiable"

2011-02-06 Thread David Friedman
libatk1.0-0 is installed (although I don't see why Dia or the installer would need an accessibility toolkit). I could install from the repositories but 0.96.1 is the latest version I see there. David Friedman ___ dia-list mailing list dia