Re: Want to resize Boxes on text update

options, as I like ME to have them! Thanks, Jim Clark From

Re: Want to resize Boxes on text update

hanks, Jim Clark From: Seba

Re: Wrapping Text in Object

This is a sometimes exasperating thing for me, and here's how I happily solved it. After I complete a diagram, I export it to png and do a bit of touch up in the GIMP. I can align my boxes more accurately and add a pixel or two to my arrow heads. I can also cut and paste text from a box that got

Re: Right angle lines (again...)

> When ever I use a lot of a particular adaptation of a "Dia primitive" I will do cuts and pastes to get more of them.  For more involved groups that I wish to reuse I have a couple of other diagrams I drop them in to copy from.  Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V works, so it it is easy.  I never found the shape

Re: Right angle lines (again...)

> did you try to delete a segment from your (freshly created) zig-zag line? To do this, select your zig-zag line and right or middle-mouse-click on the line and select "Delete Segment" from the context menu. Nope...and that seemed to do precisely what I wanted! Hooray. Will make my life better

Right angle lines (again...)

I asked this a while ago and got no answer. If there had been a "Nope, no way to do it" I would not be bothering you againbut since I received no such message, here goes again. If the lack of answer means indeed there is no way, sorry to bother you again. But this function would be very helpf

Simple right angle line

Is there a way to make the zig-zag line (or some other line if that's the way to do it) remain a hard right angle made of two lines only? The zig-zag will move from a right angle to a zig-zag and the connection point will not line up properly. I then have to eye-ball the line (at high magnificati

Re: read visio drawing in a word document

When given word docs with images embedded, I use the "Save as HTML" function, which puts the images in a subdirectory there. Toss the HTML and get your images. Now, whether that will work for a Visio embedded image, I don't know. And of course, your output will be a jpg, not whatever it was when i

Re: Text Highlight color

tainer, but spills over the edges if it gets too big in one package? Because that is what I like. Sounds as if these are two different items. How's that for a prima donna? Thanks yet again- Jim Clark Lenexa, KS USA___ dia-list mailing list dia-list

Text Highlight color

always grouped with its container. Can I do something to get that back? Thanks- Jim Clark Lenexa, KS USA___ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia

Re: Gave up on compiling, tried the RPM

Someone within IBM built this, and he corrected the problem. Got it installed easily--my first look at 0.96. Looks wonderful! So--never mind on this one. > > And though the RPM completes, dia crashes immediately with: > > ** (dia:26972): CRITICAL **: Couldn't find standard

Gave up on compiling, tried the RPM

And though the RPM completes, dia crashes immediately with: ** (dia:26972): CRITICAL **: Couldn't find standard objects when looking for object-libs in '/usr/lib/dia'; exiting... That directory has lots of things in it: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 56528 Dec 12 10:48 libaadl_objects.so -rwxr-xr-x 1

Re: Compile questions

Well--I did not find those precompiled versions...though I'd have much preferred to use one. Here's where I am: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.2 (Tikanga) Thanks yet again- Jim Clark___ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gno

Re: Compile questions

0-rhel-rel39 k which didn't help. Same glib problem. I am so grateful for the help received so far, and if this is solvable (by someone with limited Linux knowledge...) I'm eager to do so. Jim Clark > checking for PANGOVERSION... configure: error: Need Pango version 1.1.5 or >

Compile questions

: Need Pango version 1.1.5 or higher rpm -qa | grep pango pango-1.14.9-3.el5 1.14.9 seems higher than 1.1.5 Pango is in /usr/lib. which seems a reasonable place to look. I've been hunting on the web, and though this is a recurring issue, I haven't found the solution. So what's it mis

Moving on

And Lars-- My offer of lunch on your next trip to Kansas is still open. And I'll happily extend it to Hans, though I bet he doesn't come this way as often. Thanks for a great tool! Thanks- Jim Clark___ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org htt

Re: Information about DIA

Hi Ricardo- I work for a little company called IBM. Last year I headed up a project of about 30 people to develop some global procedures. There were people on my team from the US, Canada, Australia, Sweden, England and France. I got everyone using Dia, and we built about 80 flow charts. So, yes,

Text rotation

Hey folks, My 2 mini-euros worth. I use text rotation in Dia all the time. How? Well, I never use Dia diagrams as my final format. I always export to png and use those in my web pages. And fire up Gimp to do my final touch up. It is easier to crop to the dimensions I need, clean up a messy arro

A tiny question

Amid all the questions of the major changes coming in, this is pretty tiny. But it is something I'd like to know. I want all my text boxes to be the same size. When I am entering text, especially in diamond shaped boxes, when I hit "return" to move down to the next line, if my line is too long,

After all the big stuff, a small question

e of these pieces. I want to anchor them to the left side of a box, so I need the connection point on the right, but do not see how to get it to switch sides. How is this done? Thanks- Jim Clark SDS: K0QA Lenexa, Kansas 913/599-8845 T/L 337-8845___ Dia-li

US Visit

hanks- Jim Clark SDS: K0QA Lenexa, Kansas 913/599-8845 T/L 337-8845___ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia

Suddenly developing problem

er: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. It seems to work fine though. Anyone know what happened? Thanks- Jim Clark ___ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnom

Re: bugs in Dia for Windows

Hey. I have written a few times before to say what a great tool Dia is, and how a big project I lead within IBM got a bunch of new users, and how nearly everybody was impressed with the usability and functionality. So the grumps appear from nowhere, write a laundry list of complaints and dis

Re: Convert Dia to Jpeg

My .02 can't say if there's a Windows way to do this, but I can say you will be much happier converting them to png rather than to jpg. No loss, not blur, no graininess. Thanks- Jim Clark___ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gn

Room diagrams

t any suggestions appreciated. Thanks- Jim Clark UNIX/Intel & Storage, LVKH Lenexa, Kansas 913/599-8845 T/L 337-8845___ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.

Re: Maybe I'm missing something

Sorry I was opaque. The gist of my request is this. When I place objects in a diagram, I want them aligned in particular ways. I can use the alignment tools, but those are not always what I need. I want text to all appear on the same line, for instance, underneath the boxes they describe. I would

Maybe I'm missing something

I would love to see the nudge function implemented. But I would never want it to include attached lines. Why? Because I never have any! I accurately place objects where I want them, and then connect them. So for me, a nudge (a vital tool--now I get them as close as possible and then open my images

Re: 2 questions in 2 days

: 993 x 1246 pixels, 2.5 times the size. And original.png is illegible, with fonts all weird. original2.png looks just as it should. Thanks- Jim Clark > Greetings folks > > Still on .94 still on RH. Wondered about something else. > > I am the guy using Dia inside IBM for a bi

2 questions in 2 days

Greetings folks Still on .94 still on RH. Wondered about something else. I am the guy using Dia inside IBM for a big project. I am making flowcharts, someone else is too. I explained the Group function to this person, and they grouped a bunch of things and then exported to png. This apparent

How to fill a star?

I am happily using my .94 on RedHat without troubles. Until today. I made a 5 pointed star and selected a red fill. Click Apply, nothing. Tried to set the colors for new shapes, got a red outline, but no red fill. All my other shapes are the color I want. Nearly every new shape I create comes in

Graphical question

In the charts I am making that I mentioned previously (and 0.95 still has funky Windows font issues) I have decided to color code my boxes, based upon who performs the task listed. This will work well, with one exception. I have a series of boxes about things that are done in conjunction with the

Just another Kudo

I have been a happy user of Dia for about 2 years now. I have built straightforward flow charts with it, so most of the things you discuss here are incomprehensible to me. It does precisely what I want, works perfectly. I am now on a project where our deliverables will be whopping big complex mon

Protocol thanks and a shape question

Hey thanks for the pointer to the 1970 IBM document. I printed it, and will use it should any discussion arise. What I wanted to do is called a junction, and it is quite permissible. The "rules" are surprisingly open-ended. Must be the "peace-and-love" world in which it was written, even if everyo

Flowchart protocol

Not a dia question, but I cannot see an answer on the web. I am making a flow chart with a sequence of 4 decision points. If any of those are a "No" I want to go to the same "re-evaluate" box. Is it legal to have the arrows coming out of these decision points all merge into one arrow going to this

Re: Kudo and Question

Yeah, well my ability to investigate is, shall we say, quite minimal. I am not a programmer. Not close. I know no languages other than English. So, I gratefully accept your wonderful program. Wish I had more to offer other than my thanks, but they are sincere and heartfelt. Thanks- Jim Clark__

Kudo and Question

Well I upgraded to 0.94 recently when I moved to Fedora Core 3. Wow..such a small difference between the numbers .92 and .94, but what an improvement! I very much like the highlight of the target box, and I always had a hard time making lines go down and to the left,. The first one I tried worked

Missing file

I have just moved to Fedora Core 3, and though my neighbor's installation runs Dia just fine, mine gives me this error: dia: error while loading shared libraries: libdia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory However: $ locate libdia.so /usr/lib/dia/libdia.so $ ls -l /usr/

Saving defaults

This doesn't accomplish precisely what you want, but it sure simplified my life. I made a diagram with all the box styles I use (I use the same color combos/font/borders/padding over and over) and saved that diagram as my default. So instead of creating a new diagram every time, I open this one an

Asked before, now again with more questions attached

I wonder if there is some way to specify the place or item on which the alignment tool works. What I mean is this; I have a box where I want it, and I want to align another box with the first one. If I choose Center (my usual choice) it aligns them against some intermediate, self-determined meridi

Been over a day without a question

Greetings Dia-meters I wonder if there is some way to specify the place or item on which the alignment tool works. What I mean is this; I have a box where I want it, and I want to align another box with the first one. If I choose Center (my usual choice) it aligns them against some intermediate,

Text color

Sometimes when I double click on the text tool I get an option to change the text color and sometimes I do not. I haven't figured out why that is yet. Though I am sure there's a good reason. What am I doing some of the time and not others. Thanks- Jim Clark And, folks, this

Re: Another newbie question time

Ah-ha! Grab and wiggle enough lines and eventually you see the light. I had to grab the vertical line with the red box and move that past the endpoint of the lower line, and that turned my lowest line in the proper direction. Thanks- Jim Clark___ Dia-l

Re: Another newbie question time

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 08:42, Jim Clark wrote: >> http://www.llywelyn.net/png.html > >> I put a simple image of what I'd like to do on my web site. I'm sure >> there is a lot I don't understand about that zigzag line >Create a zig zag line whic

Line intersection

I saw it once but cannot find it again. How to put the hop into intersecting lines, so that one curves "over" the other? Thanks- Jim Clark___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnom

Re: Another newbie question time

http://www.llywelyn.net/png.html I put a simple image of what I'd like to do on my web site. I'm sure there is a lot I don't understand about that zigzag line Thanks- Jim Clark___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/m

Re: Another newbie question time

1) What kind of a dumb question is that knucklehead? Didn't you even look? Try "reset tools after create" in the Preferences box. sorry..found it right after sending.___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

Another newbie question time

1) For whatever reason the tool select box always defaults to the Select An Area option. Make a line then click to make another and I'm selecting an area. Click on draw a line, make the line, then click on draw the line again, repeat for every line I want to draw. Is there a reason it does not sta

Re: From private to public

anonymous folks have given me, but instead I've created web sites about unknown 50's and 60's American folk musicians, so I'm educating someone else. But I sure appreciate all your help. Thanks- Jim Clark Other well-known Jim Clarks (since someone asked) Founder (or major hon

Re: From private to public

Well, results are not what I hoped. My .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 file tells me not to edit, # Autowritten by gnome-settings-daemon. Do not edit include "/usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/gtk/gtkrc" include "/home/jimc/.gtkrc.mine" so instead I created the .gtkrc.mine file gtk-color-palette = "blue:white:whi

From private to public

I've been communicating my color needs to a couple of list-guys and they suggest I share it with everybody as it may be an issue for more than just this lonely Dia newbie. What I want is this: I need the color selector palette to be certain colors. I want to change the default colors to a palett

How to Pronounce Dia?

I've enjoyed the comments on this. I have had to explain to several people my tool for creating the flowcharts I now have to make. Thus I find myself saying "I downloaded a tool called Dee-ah, or um Die-ah, I'm not certainwell, umm, uh, anyway, it looks as if it will do precisely what I need..

Another set of beginner questions

sure is annoying. Must be an easier way to do this. On RH 9.0 dia 0.93 And, do you pronounce it dee-ah or die-ah with first or second syllable accented? Thanks- Jim Clark IBM Global Services, Service Delivery Center - West Lenexa, Kansas 913/599-8845

Re: Unresolved questions

Well that was simple enough. Thanks! And as a very commonly used function, handy to have it right on the window. As to that dropshadow.well, I'll just watch what you guys come up with. As I said, it is a nicey not a vital. Great program though. Simple and easy and clear. I love tools that do

Unresolved questions

I am: 1) A new list member 2) A neophyte flowcharter 3) A Linux very-un-power user 4) Quite familiar with GIMP 5) Not a programmer in any way 6) Using Dia 0.93 on RH 9 -> When showing my boss the beauties of Dia, he wondered about a dropshadow on the chart, which the flowcharts he has been given