Re: Ping.

2022-08-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 29 Aug 2022, Steve Litt wrote: When you get back to https://discourse.gnome.org/tag/dia , please give them the following message for me: Discourse? Way to disenfranchise your users. Now, rather than Dia messages coming to me, I have to go out and get them. Steve, et al.: There's an em

Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020, Olav Vitters wrote: Thanks, up to now that lack of creating a new topic/thread via email wasn't much of a problem. Hopefully by raising it as an issue it can get fixed. Upstream (Discourse) was ok with the idea, but seems there aren't too many people who complained. I did no

Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020, Steve Litt wrote: I can't imagine anything friendlier than email. It comes to you, you read it, you reply. No need to join yet another third party, no need to read and agree to yet another legal contract, many of which have "take your house" indemnification clauses. Yes, e

Re: Change canvas layout from portrait to landscape

2020-09-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 30 Sep 2020, Michael Ross wrote: The work flow for Dia allows you to disregard portraitness,and landscapeness - just make the Dia so you like it. Shape the canvas as to like it. Michael, I see the page breaka on the canvas and thought I needed to keep all objects within one. Then yo

Change canvas layout

2020-09-29 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm starting to learn dia and want to change the canvas layout from portrait to landscape. I've not found a menu item that lets me do this. What have I missed? Rich ___ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia

Change canvas layout from portrait to landscape

2020-09-29 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm starting to learn dia and want to change the canvas layout from portrait to landscape. I've not found a menu item that lets me do this. What have I missed? Rich ___ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia

Re: Setting page/fontsize attributes [RESOLVED]

2020-06-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 26 Jun 2020, Rich Shepard wrote: Running dia-0.97.3 on Slackware64-14.2 and I've looked for answers in the dia-manual.pdf without finding the answers to my questions. Re-reading the entire manual allowed me to stumble upon the answers. I had to work with preferences a few time

Setting page/fontsize attributes

2020-06-26 Thread Rich Shepard
Running dia-0.97.3 on Slackware64-14.2 and I've looked for answers in the dia-manual.pdf without finding the answers to my questions. I am creating a database schema diagram of tables and columns on letter paper. I want to change the display to a single page rather than what appears to be a large

Re: Scaling Entire Drawing

2008-01-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Lars Clausen wrote: > If you go to the menu File -> Page Setup, there is an option to scale > either by percentage or to fit a certain number of sheets. I frequently > scale to 1x1 sheet just to not have to worry about the sizes. Lars, Thank you. I think that I tried tha

Scaling Entire Drawing

2008-01-29 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm brand new to Dia (using 0.96.1), and didn't realize that the rulers are in centimeters despite my setting the page size to US Letter. So I ended up drawing the ER diagram much too large. When I selected all objects I could not find a menu choice that would allow me to scale the entire dr

Re: Build Error

2007-03-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: > Hmmm... let's start with the simple: What version of xsltproc do you > have? Appears to be libxslt-1.1.17. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |The Environmental Permitting Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.| Accelera

Re: Build Error

2007-03-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: > Yes, I need to get that old site down and pointing to live.gnome.org, > which actually gets updated -- it was just *way* too much hassle to update > the old one. Look at > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/dia/0.96/dia-0.96.tar.bz2 Lars, Someth

Re: Build Error

2007-03-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: > First, try with 0.96 -- you'll be much happier overall. Second, make > sure the docbook (welsh) XSLT's are installed correctly. Lars, Thank you. Where do I find 0.96? I found 0.95-1 on the project's web site. I assume that all the requisite xslt

Build Error

2007-03-27 Thread Rich Shepard
Trying to make -0.95-1 generates this output: make[3]: Leaving directory /usr/src/slackbuilds/dia/dia-0.95-1/sheets' make[2]: Leaving directory /usr/src/slackbuilds/dia/dia-0.95-1/sheets' Making all in doc make[2]: Entering directory /usr/src/slackbuilds/dia/dia-0.95-1/doc' Making all in en mak