Re: Doubts about Dia Program

2015-12-13 Thread vwf
Hello, Unfortunately, Microsoft is rather poor in supporting open standards. Dia can export images in numerous formats, but the only one I find useful is Ciaro PNG (with alpha) : PNG is the image format, Cairo the library generating the image, and alpha means that you have transparency (somethin

Re: need your help

2013-12-04 Thread vwf
The simplest trick I use is getting the symbols in libreoffice and copy/paste to dia. All use unicode. Success On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 06:01:32AM -0800, raji raji wrote: > how do to add mathematical symbol > > need urgent for PPT presentation > > -- > raji.v >

Re: modifying text in text object

2013-07-31 Thread vwf
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 09:47:07AM +0200, hugo borrell wrote: > I'm currently discovering Dia with great pleasure but would fancy modifying > text in text objects : once created, it seems that it is not possible to > change the text and I have to erase the whole object and create an new one. > This

Re: Size of page

2013-07-29 Thread vwf
In my Dia (version 0.97.2) A0 is the largest. And I do not see any option to set a custom size. I never had any need to set a page size but I do not think this the problem is solved yet. On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:02:08PM -0400, Michael Ross wrote: > Go to File/Page Setup/Paper Size > > On M

Re: DIA License

2013-06-14 Thread vwf
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:17:49AM -0300, Sergio Souza wrote: > I want to know more about DIA´s license. Is it possible to use DIA in a > corporate enviroment ? No problem at all: https://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq#Licensing In essence: Only when you (re)distribute (a modified version of) Dia, GPL k

Re: eye-icon

2013-04-14 Thread vwf
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 09:32:11PM +0200, Hans Breuer wrote: > > > >>No problem with two layers, but my current diagram has 6 and when I placed > >>an item on the wrong layer it requires some layer on/off switching to > >>find out on what layer it went. > > > >Same is true for many other programs t

Re: eye-icon

2013-04-12 Thread vwf
This window can be confusing. One improvement can be the use of two icons for active/off (gray-out), instead of switching an icon on/off. In that same window the arrow-icon on/off remains a confusing event for me: when I select a layer, other icons switch on/off in respons. Finally, it can be ver

Re: Major problems with line width in export.?..?.

2013-01-24 Thread vwf
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:58:44PM +, Chris Damien wrote: > I am using Dia to create flow chart diagrams for an important work > project. It has been working fine, but I have one major problem. After > exporting my finished diagram as a pdf, all the line widths that I set > seem to reset in thi

Re: invisible connector points

2013-01-24 Thread vwf
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 08:43:53AM -0500, Michael Ross wrote: > Hi vwf, > > You can place the connection point shape (from the Electric sheet) and > change its size to be large or smaller than the line itself, but you can't > have many of them and change their size wholesale

invisible connector points

2013-01-22 Thread vwf
Hello, For some complex wiring I would like to have "invisible connector points", points that I can use to connect lines, cleary visable within dia but hidden in the exported graphics file. Are these avaiable or can these be made? Thanks ___ dia-list ma

Re: Support with Dia

2013-01-17 Thread vwf
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 05:12:19PM +0100, Luigi Bossio wrote: > now I need to export that diagram to my MS Word 2010. I tried by doing it > with exporting but either I didn't do it correctly or it just doesn't work. > I need to export that to Word otherwise your program is useless to me. I always

Re: svg export with svg embedded

2013-01-16 Thread vwf
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:47:45PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: > > For a new project I have some shapes that consist of a .shape- and a > > .svg-file: the .shape file contains connectors and size, and the shape > > itself is in the .svg-file. > > > When I export my diagram as a svg-file, the includ

svg export with svg embedded

2013-01-15 Thread vwf
Hello, I use dia successfully for several projects. Recently I stumbled over a problem: For a new project I have some shapes that consist of a .shape- and a .svg-file: the .shape file contains connectors and size, and the shape itself is in the .svg-file. When I export my diagram as a svg-file,

Re: Connect two lines?

2012-11-25 Thread vwf
Ohto, I think you can if you make connector points and draw lines between them. I think such point do not exist yet but creating them should be easy. Frits On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 09:09:50AM +0200, Ohto Nordberg wrote: > I can connect a line to a box, but not line to line. I am trying to draw >

svg to path

2012-10-05 Thread vwf
Hello, Would there be a (automated) way to come from a standard svg shape description (as produced by inkscape) towards the dia svg:path d="... shape description? This way I could edit shapes from within dia. Thanks ___ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gn

Re: Icons/Symbols/Shapes

2012-06-16 Thread vwf
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:18:18AM +0200, Hans Breuer wrote: > > Am 16.06.2012 um 07:56 schrieb vwf: > > Usual response would be: please include your problematic shape file for > analysis, > but I've got it off-list. It appears handwritten instead of being based on

Re: Icons/Symbols/Shapes

2012-06-15 Thread vwf
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:19:20PM +0200, Hans Breuer wrote: > Did you now switch to 0.97.2 on Linux, too? Or do you still need to > read > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2012-June/msg00013.html ? Switched > AFAICT there is no portability issue for shapes between Linux and > Windows vers

Re: Icons/Symbols/Shapes

2012-06-14 Thread vwf
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 09:35:41PM +0200, Hans Breuer wrote: > Should work as well - except if your svg is too complicate for Dia > to render. The subset of SVG supported by Dia directly (for shapes > and import) is comparatively small to the subset supported by > librsvg. What I do not understand

Re: Icons/Symbols/Shapes

2012-06-10 Thread vwf
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 09:34:53AM +0200, Killian De Volder wrote: > BTW what is wrong with this: > probably... ___ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq M

Re: swapping shapes

2012-06-09 Thread vwf
On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 09:20:41AM +0200, Edheldil wrote: > > I compiled 0.97.2 from source but the confuration reported no > > Python support > make sure you have python-dev package installed before configuring/building Got this part working: Dialog appeared, with "Python Console" and "Dia Group

Re: swapping shapes

2012-06-08 Thread vwf
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 07:23:52PM +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 11:07:28 +0200, vwf wrote: > > > I have a series of shapes that are identical except for the image. Now I > > would like to be able to swap one shape for another one on the canvas. > >

swapping shapes

2012-06-08 Thread vwf
Hello, I have a series of shapes that are identical except for the image. Now I would like to be able to swap one shape for another one on the canvas. When I look at the .dia file this should be achievable: change in "mysensiblename" for "anothersensiblename" But I would like to do this on the

Re: shape default size

2012-06-07 Thread vwf
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 07:51:18AM +0200, vwf wrote: > How do I set the default size of a shape? Thanks for the references. The answer was 5cm There is however a problem. When I do this on windows with dia 0.97.2, this works as expected. On my Debian Linux with Dia 0.97.1, the shape is 1

Re: svg in MS Windows

2012-06-06 Thread vwf
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 09:55:47PM +0200, Steffen Macke wrote: > Which Dia version do you use on Windows (and from where did you > download it? - also there's the Portable version and the installer > version). Information regarding the operating system might also help > to backcheck on your proble

svg in MS Windows

2012-06-06 Thread vwf
Hello, I made my own shapes and used svg images for the "content". This works fine under Linux, but when using the same shapes in MS Windows, I get an error on loading: "Couldn't recognise the image format for file C:\Do..." Is this a MS problem or did I do something wrong? Thanks, Frits ___

shape default size

2012-06-01 Thread vwf
Hello, I made my own shape that works fine. The shape is '10' wide, but 10-what? When I put a shape on the canvas it is about 2.5 screen units, but the A4 seems about 15 wide. For normal use I would like to see the shape/image larger; now I always resize the shape to make them fit arrowheads an

Re: shapes with text

2012-06-01 Thread vwf
Hi, Thank you very much for your reply and your work. I still have to study the details to see how this is different from what I made working but it looks very interesting. Have a nice weekend, Frits On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 09:49:36PM +0200, Hans Breuer wrote: > At 25.05.2012 17:22, John Bollenb

Re: fram shape

2012-05-30 Thread vwf
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 06:33:30PM +0200, vwf wrote: > > My first attempt to make such a shape failed. The hexagon is there, the > shape has six connectors, but the letters are missing. At present the > shape is a bit off and the circular connectors are not in yet, but I try > to

fram shape

2012-05-30 Thread vwf
Hello, I would like to help a friend to draw a special type of model. The model is build from hexagons with six connectors (labeled with six letters). The model with the hexagons looks like this: http://www.functionalresonance.com/FRAM_analysis_knowledge.html My first attempt to make such a s

type1 font problem

2006-05-22 Thread vwf
Hello, I would like to make a diagram in .eps format with my own Adobe type1-font. This works when I choose pango-fonts, but goes wrong with postscript latin-1 fonts. In the last case, the resulting image has courier fonts. The image will be embedded in a LaTeX document, and I want the text i