Re: Dynamic Grid Lines not working

2020-07-19 Thread AMOSAF Archives via dia-list
Attention Andrey Repin Dear Andrey Thanks. That worked Regards Peter Peter Clark > On 18 Jul 2020, at 5:40 am, Andrey Repin via dia-list > wrote: > > Greetings, AMOSAF Archives via dia-list! > >> My question probably should have been is how can I >> print to one page > > > File - Page setup

Re: Dynamic Grid Lines not working

2020-07-17 Thread Andrey Repin via dia-list
Greetings, AMOSAF Archives via dia-list! > My question probably should have been is how can I > print to one page File - Page setup. Look for "Scaling" option. Change it until your entire diagram fit to a single canvas. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Friday, July 17, 2020 22:53:46 Sorry

Re: Dynamic Grid Lines not working

2020-07-15 Thread AMOSAF Archives via dia-list
at 8:54 pm, Zander Brown wrote: > >  >> >> To whom it may concern, > > Hello! > >> I have recently downloaded a copy of diaw.exe 0.97.2. I cannot get the >> dynamic grid line feature to work. The dynamic grid box in the Dynamic >> Properties m

Re: Dynamic Grid Lines not working

2020-07-15 Thread Zander Brown
> To whom it may concern, Hello! > I have recently downloaded a copy of diaw.exe 0.97.2. I cannot get the > dynamic grid line feature to work. The dynamic grid box in the Dynamic > Properties menu is checked but the grid lines do not move to contain the flow > chart features.

Dynamic Grid Lines not working

2020-07-14 Thread Peter Clark via dia-list
To whom it may concern,I have recently downloaded a copy of diaw.exe 0.97.2. I cannot get the dynamic grid line feature to work. The dynamic grid box in the Dynamic Properties menu is checked but the grid lines do not move to contain the flow chart features. The result is that I have multiple

Re: Is it possible to connect the ends of lines together?

2018-01-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 23:33:49 -0500 Michael Ross wrote: > It is common in CAD programs to be able to connect one line to > another and have them stay attached when the grip where they join is > moved. So it it is sort of an artifact from a different paradigm. I > have a habit of wanting to attac

Re: Is it possible to connect the ends of lines together?

2018-01-14 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Chris Green! > On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 06:40:51AM +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Chris Green! >> >> > Lines connect to connection points on other shapes but there seems no >> > way to connect the *ends* of lines to each other, am I missing

Re: Is it possible to connect the ends of lines together?

2018-01-14 Thread Michael Ross
e Electric sheet, not Circuit like I said > >earlier) will work, but they are annoying because they can be enormous > >or tiny and hard to grab ahold of when you want to move them. They > are > >inconvenient to place if you do a lot of them. You can attach a > reg

Re: Is it possible to connect the ends of lines together?

2018-01-14 Thread Chris Green
>line to a connection point and move the point while the lines stay >attached and rubber band as desired. >I just attached a line, a zigzag, a polyline, an arc, and a bezierline >to a connection point and they all tracked the connection point when I >moved it. I

Re: Is it possible to connect the ends of lines together?

2018-01-14 Thread Michael Ross
us or tiny and hard to grab ahold of when you want to move them. They are inconvenient to place if you do a lot of them. You can attach a regular line to a connection point and move the point while the lines stay attached and rubber band as desired. I just attached a line, a zigzag, a polyline, a

Re: Is it possible to connect the ends of lines together?

2018-01-14 Thread Chris Green
e for joining two (or more) lines would be on circuit diagrams. -- Chris Green ___ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia

Re: Is it possible to connect the ends of lines together?

2018-01-14 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 06:40:51AM +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Chris Green! > > > Lines connect to connection points on other shapes but there seems no > > way to connect the *ends* of lines to each other, am I missing > > something obvious? > > If you

Re: Is it possible to connect the ends of lines together?

2018-01-13 Thread Michael Ross
convenient if I could do that in Dia as well. I get by with polylines, polygons and Bezier Regions, but they are not as easy to use. When several lines converge at a point, then you want to relocate just that convergence of entities, you have to move each, one at a time. In a CAD sketch you could

Re: Is it possible to connect the ends of lines together?

2018-01-13 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Chris Green! > Lines connect to connection points on other shapes but there seems no > way to connect the *ends* of lines to each other, am I missing > something obvious? If you could explain, WHY do you want to do that, it would be easier to help, I think. -- With bes

Re: Is it possible to connect the ends of lines together?

2018-01-13 Thread Michael Ross
There are a number of ways, obviously not what you were expecting. You can create a polyline then add and subtract movable corners. I believe these corners can be radiused. The zigzag lines can be radiused. You can place a connection point and attach line ends to it (I forget which shape group

Is it possible to connect the ends of lines together?

2018-01-13 Thread Chris Green
Lines connect to connection points on other shapes but there seems no way to connect the *ends* of lines to each other, am I missing something obvious? -- Chris Green ___ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Symbol: Thin lines

2016-11-15 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Michael Heidinger! > using dia 0.97.2 i have the problem, that my symbol has some thin lines. > Can you please have a look. Symbol attached. > > Please have a look and fix. Which symbol, and which lines? Without knowing, how it should work and what you actually ob

Symbol: Thin lines

2016-11-14 Thread Michael Heidinger
Hi all,   using dia 0.97.2 i have the problem, that my symbol has some thin lines. Can you please have a look. Symbol attached.   Please have a look and fix.   Thanks, -Michael   nmos8.shape Description: Binary data ___ dia-list mailing list

Re: How to add relationship lines?

2013-05-08 Thread Michael Ross
Hans, Just that I don't keep up to date. Don't trust my rumors, because I am not in the revision mix. Thanks for bring forth the current news on this. On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Hans Breuer wrote: > At 07.05.2013 00:37, Michael Ross wrote: > [...] > > >> I hear that being able to select

Re: How to add relationship lines?

2013-05-08 Thread Hans Breuer
At 07.05.2013 00:37, Michael Ross wrote: [...] I hear that being able to select multiple entities and change their properties altogether is coming (good when you want all the properties to be alike among the group). Do not trust rumors however. I wouldn't call the Dia 0.97 release announcement

Re: How to add relationship lines?

2013-05-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 6 May 2013 23:49:00 +0300 Genadi Saltikov wrote: > Hello Steve! > Apologies for not sharing what I found, I thought everyone on the list > knows :) > Basically, after dissecting the original .DIA file Hans linked me to, > I figured out that the relationships like 1:1, 1:N etc, were define

Re: How to add relationship lines?

2013-05-06 Thread Michael Ross
something. I do diagrams like that all the time. I >> didn't understand your original question, nor the responses of most of >> the people, but it sounds to me like you want lines, either straight or >> "jaggie" between the boxes, circles, etc. Those are connectors,

Re: How to add relationship lines?

2013-05-06 Thread Genadi Saltikov
I do diagrams like that all the time. I > didn't understand your original question, nor the responses of most of > the people, but it sounds to me like you want lines, either straight or > "jaggie" between the boxes, circles, etc. Those are connectors, and > the

Re: How to add relationship lines?

2013-05-06 Thread Steve Litt
that all the time. I didn't understand your original question, nor the responses of most of the people, but it sounds to me like you want lines, either straight or "jaggie" between the boxes, circles, etc. Those are connectors, and there's an implied connection point in the cent

Re: How to add relationship lines?

2013-05-05 Thread Michael Ross
You might be able to superimpose and group two of opposite cardinality. On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Genadi Saltikov wrote: > Thanks for the desire to help Alejandro, but this is missing the point, I > specifically wanted ER Diagrams like here: > http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/920/201305051

Re: How to add relationship lines?

2013-05-05 Thread Genadi Saltikov
Thanks for the desire to help Alejandro, but this is missing the point, I specifically wanted ER Diagrams like here: http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/920/2013050542.jpg Thankfully, Hans has also replied to me giving me a link to the original diagram I missed, and from this I figured out how it

Re: How to add relationship lines?

2013-05-05 Thread Hans Breuer
At 05.05.2013 15:39, Genadi Saltikov wrote: Hello! I've been trying Dia on Ubuntu 13.04 and it works great! I am doing ER Diagrams for various uni assignments in few courses. However, I cant figure out, nor find anything in the documentation about how to create relationships between objects suc

Re: How to add relationship lines?

2013-05-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Genadi Saltikov wrote: > Hello! > > I've been trying Dia on Ubuntu 13.04 and it works great! > I am doing ER Diagrams for various uni assignments in few courses. > > However, I cant figure out, nor find anything in the documentation about how > to create relationshi

How to add relationship lines?

2013-05-05 Thread Genadi Saltikov
Hello! I've been trying Dia on Ubuntu 13.04 and it works great! I am doing ER Diagrams for various uni assignments in few courses. However, I cant figure out, nor find anything in the documentation about how to create relationships between objects such as 1:N, 1:* etc? As seen in this example: h

Re: labeling lines

2013-04-11 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:12 PM, PATERNO Nicolas wrote: > Hi, > > > > Just a simple question: > > > > - How is it possible that a software to make flowchart doesn’t > allow for simply labeling of connection lines??? > Are you asking, stating or c

Re: labeling lines

2013-04-11 Thread Michael Ross
luck with that, M On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:12 PM, PATERNO Nicolas < nicolas.pate...@power.alstom.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > > Just a simple question: > > > > - How is it possible that a software to make flowchart doesn’t > allow for simply labeling of co

labeling lines

2013-04-11 Thread PATERNO Nicolas
Hi, Just a simple question: - How is it possible that a software to make flowchart doesn't allow for simply labeling of connection lines??? Thanks and Best Regards, Nicolas. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential an

Re: Lines intersections (proposal)

2013-01-03 Thread Pierre Equoy
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Michael Ross wrote: > Hello Pierre, > > I have adapted to this by using connection points where lines join, and no > connection point when they do they are only crossing, not joined. Also > colored lines helps make this clear. > I wouldn'

Re: Lines intersections (proposal)

2013-01-03 Thread Michael Ross
Hello Pierre, I have adapted to this by using connection points where lines join, and no connection point when they do they are only crossing, not joined. Also colored lines helps make this clear. On my wish list, along with hops, is multi-color lines. Every now and then I will overlay a

Lines intersections (proposal)

2013-01-03 Thread Pierre Equoy
E for instance... In the "Proposal" part, it is made more obvious. Of course, I can do this manually, but then moving the lines and the blocks becomes very complicated, as each line has to be cut into three parts at least (two straight lines and one "bridge"). I looked in this

Re: Connect two lines?

2012-11-28 Thread Hans Breuer
At 27.11.2012 12:33, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Alejandro Imass! [...] If the ends of lines can connect (i.e. are connection points themselves) why can't they connect to each other?? it seems like something easy to fix... Just putting connection points on the end of lines mig

Re: Connect two lines?

2012-11-27 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Alejandro Imass! >> I don't believe you can connect two lines end to end. I think that is what >> the inquiry was about. >> > Michael, you are correct. My last email was incorrect, only one > connection point that can receive connection in the middle. &g

Re: Connect two lines?

2012-11-26 Thread Michael Ross
ve you can connect two lines end to end. I think that is > what > > the inquiry was about. > > > > Michael, you are correct. My last email was incorrect, only one > connection point that can receive connection in the middle. > > > But if you have a connection point t

Re: Connect two lines?

2012-11-26 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Michael Ross wrote: > I don't believe you can connect two lines end to end. I think that is what > the inquiry was about. > Michael, you are correct. My last email was incorrect, only one connection point that can receive connection in the middle.

Re: Connect two lines?

2012-11-26 Thread Michael Ross
I don't believe you can connect two lines end to end. I think that is what the inquiry was about. But if you have a connection point the you can move that point around and the two lines will follow it. Seems like the perfect solution for the diagram he is trying to make. On Mon, Nov 26,

Re: Connect two lines?

2012-11-26 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Ohto Nordberg wrote: > I can connect a line to a box, but not line to line. I am trying to draw > graphs like this: > http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GraphComposition.html > All lines in DIA have 3 connection points: on each end and in the middle. -

Re: Connect two lines?

2012-11-26 Thread Ale Strooisma
Seeing as those are just lines with dots at the connection, why not use the UML final state and normal lines? Ale On 11/26/2012 09:01 AM, Michael Ross wrote: There is a connection point in the Electric sheet. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:25 AM, vwf <mailto:v...@vulkor.net>> wrote:

Re: Connect two lines?

2012-11-26 Thread Michael Ross
There is a connection point in the Electric sheet. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:25 AM, vwf wrote: > 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 > &

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 d

Re: Connect two lines?

2012-11-25 Thread Michael Ross
You cannot connect lines directly. But you can use a scaled down connection point between the lines. Alternately, you can use a bezier line which is completely adaptable - you can even make corners by reducing the slope grips (sorry I do not know the proper name for these). On Mon, Nov 26, 2012

Connect two lines?

2012-11-25 Thread Ohto Nordberg
I can connect a line to a box, but not line to line. I am trying to draw graphs like this: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GraphComposition.html I would like to draw graphs like that easily, not sure if Dia can do that? Thank you, Ohto Nordberg ___ dia-lis

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: Sharp lines - Sub and super -scripts

2012-09-28 Thread Thomas Harding
On 28/09/2012 15:55, 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 prepare schematic diagrams of electronic circuits and insert them into a document. I just tried it. The *.png format loo

Re: Sharp lines - Sub and super -scripts

2012-09-28 Thread Michael Ross
ou, > > Basile > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* dia-list-boun...@gnome.org [mailto:dia-list-boun...@gnome.org] *On > Behalf Of *Michael Ross > *Sent:* Thursday, September 27, 2012 9:21 PM > *To:* discussions about usage and development of dia > *Subject:*

RE: Sharp lines - Sub and super -scripts

2012-09-28 Thread Panoutsopoulos, Basile (Computer Electronics and Graphics Tech)
any future with the superscript and subscript? Thank you, Basile From: dia-list-boun...@gnome.org [mailto:dia-list-boun...@gnome.org] On Behalf Of Michael Ross Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 9:21 PM To: discussions about usage and development of dia Subject: Re: Sharp lines - Sub and supe

Re: Sharp lines - Sub and super -scripts

2012-09-27 Thread Michael Ross
Basile, Sharp can have more than one meaning in English. Do you meant pointed on the ends? This does not make sense because the lines are square on the ends unless an arrow is added. Or do you me the long sides are anti-aliased or blurred? If diagonal lines have blurry edges, there settings to

Re: Custom lines external properties

2012-07-11 Thread Julien SIEBERT
g box objects>properties in order to modify them). I am not trying to display them on the line representation (I have seen that labeling lines is an open question too). Currently I export my diagram with a filter that automatically generates text and associates it to a line... I hope it c

Re: Custom lines external properties

2012-07-08 Thread Hans Breuer
At 05.07.2012 11:29, Julien SIEBERT wrote: [...] I was wondering if there is any way to add external properties to custom lines the same way it is possible to add external properties to custom shapes (via in the .line file) ? It is not. And before you start to extend custom_lines please be

Custom lines external properties

2012-07-05 Thread Julien SIEBERT
Hi everyone, (excuse my english, i am french) Few days ago, I started having fun with dia (making my own plugin, shapes, custom lines). I have to say that it is a great tool (even if I don't understand yet everything about Gtk, C, and Xml stuff behind). I was wondering if there is any w

dashed lines not printing?

2011-03-03 Thread matt roybal
Hello, my name is Matt and am currently a student at UCD. I decided to try out your program for making ER diagrams for database design, and had a quick question for you if you don't mind. When I select the line style as a dashed line, it appears correctly in the program, but once printed (printe

Re: Change length of several lines simultaneously.

2010-10-16 Thread Pooya
Dear Sameer, dear Thimo, thank you for your support! @Thimo: I will use your workaround. I will try to adapt this to such lines, which are not on the same horizontal line (e.g stepped distribution) Cheers. Am 15.10.2010 um 11:34 schrieb Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe (समीर दिलीप सहस्रबुद्धे

Re: Change length of several lines simultaneously.

2010-10-15 Thread Hans Breuer
At 15.10.2010 01:53, Pooya wrote: Am 15.10.2010 um 01:05 schrieb Hans Breuer: But I wonder, why I am not able to do this. Mee too. So you are able to resize several lines simultaneously? Programatically: yes. I even gave some thought on how to do the dedicated "group-wise" handle

Call to gradient shapes, the Free Software way [was: Re: Change length of several lines simultaneously.]

2010-10-15 Thread Thomas Harding
First, thanks to point us on this great article on the list [to be continue below quoting] Le 15/10/2010 05:25, Michael Ross a écrit : Dear Pooya, In response to the following comment "Nothing related to my demanded task happens." I am issuing the "You should demand a refund" rejoinder. This

Re: Change length of several lines simultaneously.

2010-10-15 Thread Thimo Langbehn
n now resize all arrows by moving the two helper lines. Other than that, I fear there currently is no solution to this problem, at least no general one. There is a way to solve this problem for lines and simple shapes, similar to the way Inkscape handles it, but there are shapes (UML) for which

Re: Change length of several lines simultaneously.

2010-10-15 Thread समीर दिलीप सहस्रबुद्धे
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Pooya wrote: > Thank you Hans, thank you Michael, > maybe there is a misunderstanding. > I'm sorry I have not expressed myself correctly. Apologies for butting in out of nowhere, but I find it rather unfortunate that Pooya has to write this. As far as I can see,

Re: Change length of several lines simultaneously.

2010-10-15 Thread Pooya
Thank you Hans, thank you Michael, maybe there is a misunderstanding. I'm sorry I have not expressed myself correctly. Hans wonders, that nothing happens. Of course something happens: all selected objects will be moved, when trying to resize them. I was willing to correct myself by restating: no

Re: Change length of several lines simultaneously.

2010-10-14 Thread Michael Ross
Dear Pooya, In response to the following comment "Nothing related to my demanded task happens." I am issuing the "You should demand a refund" rejoinder. This is a great article about Free & Open Source Software (FOSS): http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm you can read "Dia" almost everywhere in

Re: Change length of several lines simultaneously.

2010-10-14 Thread Pooya
Am 15.10.2010 um 01:05 schrieb Hans Breuer: >> But I wonder, why I am not able to do this. > Mee too. So you are able to resize several lines simultaneously? Did I understand you wrong, when you wrote "so there is no way to resize multiple objects at once" ? >>

Re: Change length of several lines simultaneously.

2010-10-14 Thread Hans Breuer
At 14.10.2010 22:08, Pooya wrote: Hi, this is a very simple question for a very simple task. This entirely depends on the point of view. But I wonder, why I am not able to do this. Mee too. Is there any trick? No. I am trying to change the length of several lines/arrows simultaneously

Change length of several lines simultaneously.

2010-10-14 Thread Pooya
Hi, this is a very simple question for a very simple task. But I wonder, why I am not able to do this. Is there any trick? I am trying to change the length of several lines/arrows simultaneously. I selected them all and tried with the "object-change-tool" to drag a line´s end. Nothi

Re: Connecting lines problem

2010-06-23 Thread lesl...@ozemail.com.au
On Wed Jun 23 13:20 , Carlo Calderoni sent: >Try zigzagline or right-click on the line and in popupmenu choose "Add connection point" Thanks very much for taking the trouble to reply, Carlo. I may have this wrong, but it SEEMS to me that using "Add connection point" on my horizontal line a

Re: Connecting lines problem

2010-06-23 Thread Carlo Calderoni
f the objects beneath it mean that any line between them will > not be > straight up and down, but at an angle. > > The point's a small one, but I'd like my connecting lines all to be > straight up > and down. > > Is there a way to manipulate the connection point

Connecting lines problem

2010-06-23 Thread lesl...@ozemail.com.au
a vertical line. My problem is that the connection points available to me on the horizontal line and on some of the objects beneath it mean that any line between them will not be straight up and down, but at an angle. The point's a small one, but I'd like my connecting lines all to be strai

Re: problems with dashed lines

2010-04-30 Thread Robert Premuž
Sorry, here are the attachments. 2010/4/30 Robert Premuž : > Hi! > > I use Dia v. 0.97.1-1 (downloaded from http://dia-installer.de) on a > MS Windows XP Pro. SP3. > > I have problems with using dashed lines on objects. E.g. if a couple > of objects have the same line pro

problems with dashed lines

2010-04-30 Thread Robert Premuž
Hi! I use Dia v. 0.97.1-1 (downloaded from http://dia-installer.de) on a MS Windows XP Pro. SP3. I have problems with using dashed lines on objects. E.g. if a couple of objects have the same line properties (width, style, dash length etc.), the dashed lines don't look the same on all ob

Re: custom shapes and lines

2010-03-16 Thread Allan Eising
ay >> Dia renders things). If you're able to read/edit the XML of your >> shapes, you could try to >> remove e.g. the border. >> > Hi, > > another reason for duplicated lines is for example rectangle with even > minutely rounded corners - Dia will place two

Re: custom shapes and lines

2010-03-12 Thread Edheldil
s an ugly black border even to >> places where no border should be. >> > > The shape export often exports areas and their border twice (because > that's the way > Dia renders things). If you're able to read/edit the XML of your > shapes, you could try to > re

Re: custom shapes and lines

2010-03-11 Thread Steffen Macke
Hi Allan, sorry for the late reply. > When I include my newly defined shape, some how dia overrides the borders > of each and every rectangle within the shape, making them follow the > properties of the object itself. This adds an ugly black border even to > places where no border should be. The

custom shapes and lines

2010-03-10 Thread Allan Eising
Hi there, I apologize if this question has already been raised here, but my google- fu did not return any valid results. I'm trying to build some custom shapes using dia, and I build the shapes within dia, save them as .shape and import them into my sheets. When I include my newly defined shape

Re: database table diagonal lines when printing

2010-01-27 Thread Mike Dewhirst
On 28/01/2010 7:20am, Thimo Langbehn wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Mike Mike Dewhirst wrote: The Database Table object works fine on-screen. When printed on a printer (I have two) or via PDFCreator or via Dia exporting to pdf you see half-strength diagonal lines

Re: database table diagonal lines when printing

2010-01-27 Thread Thimo Langbehn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Mike Mike Dewhirst wrote: > The Database Table object works fine on-screen. > > When printed on a printer (I have two) or via PDFCreator or via Dia > exporting to pdf you see half-strength diagonal lines emanating from the > c

database table diagonal lines when printing

2010-01-27 Thread Mike Dewhirst
when printing but in case that doesn't make it through the mailing list gate I'll describe it now. When printed on a printer (I have two) or via PDFCreator or via Dia exporting to pdf you see half-strength diagonal lines emanating from the circular bullets (but not the diamond shaped pri

Re: Connecting lines (making a node)

2009-11-21 Thread Michael Ross
I generally place a connector symbol (a dot), then turn on object snapping - the wires I attach at the dot will stay there as a I move the dot. On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 4:46 PM, OC wrote: > Hello, > > I may be stupid but I don't figure out how to connect lines together in &g

Connecting lines (making a node)

2009-11-21 Thread OC
Hello, I may be stupid but I don't figure out how to connect lines together in Dia... For example, in an electrical circuit, one wire separates into several wires which goes to several components. This is a basic electrical node. Please, could you tell me how to do ? Best regards,

Re: Right angle lines (again...)

2009-10-27 Thread Jim Clark
und the shape creation very intuitive or well documented (in older versions) so this is my workaround. I actually have a dia file called useful_lines and that is always open when I'm working. I have saved a variety of lines that are sometimes hard to make and do indeed cut and paste from that

Re: Right angle lines (again...)

2009-10-26 Thread Michael Ross
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 cre

Re: Right angle lines (again...)

2009-10-26 Thread Jim Clark
> 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

Re: Right angle lines (again...)

2009-10-26 Thread Steffen Macke
me 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 magnification) > to get it to s

Right angle lines (again...)

2009-10-26 Thread Jim Clark
ld be very helpful to me. 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 ey

Conecting lines and overlapping

2009-10-04 Thread Johan Säll
Hello! My name is Johan (from Sweden) and I have only been using this program a couple of days so far. I have come across afew problems. 1. I can't connect one more line/arrow to an already drawn line from one objecect to another. I must conect to an objekt. 2. I whould like to have some sort

diagonal lines in database tables

2009-10-04 Thread mildavw
When I print a database schema, the tables have diagonal lines in the background behind the field names. See attached. Is this intentional? If so, how do I turn it off? http://www.nabble.com/file/p25709470/Diagram1.png -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/diagonal-lines

Crossed lines

2009-09-01 Thread chouaffe frannck-edmond
Dear readers, I have been struggling for while to find how to distinguish to lines which cross one another in the manner Microsoft visio handles it. In fact, when using Visio, a small curve appears on one of the lines to distinguish from the other one. I wonder if there is a similar way to manage

Crossed lines

2009-09-01 Thread Edmond Chouaffe
Dear readers, I have been struggling for while to find how to distinguish to lines which cross one another in the manner Microsoft visio handles it. In fact, when using Visio, a small curve appears on one of the lines to distinguish from the other one. I wonder if there is a similar way to

"Gane and Sarson", "Process" without any lines across

2009-06-11 Thread PoWah Wong
I use "Gane and Sarson", "Process" on Dia 0.96.1. The default "Process" is closed end with 2 lines across, how to change it to closed end without any lines across? __ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: S

Re: add attributes to lines?

2009-04-19 Thread Carl Karsten
I need to add attributes to lines too, and it looks like as soon as I save a line as a .shape, it is no longer something I can use to connect other objects together. What I would really like is to customize lines like you can shapes so that I can have a the following firewire, usb, ethernet

Re: text parallel diagonal lines

2009-03-12 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hello, First thanks a lot; Well, this worked. But as you mentioned, with certain letters (like "o", or "d") there is a problem. So I cannot use dia for my diagram. I wish that ordinary text will have such a feature. Rgs, Kevin. On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Steffen Macke wrote: > Hi, > >>

Re: text parallel diagonal lines

2009-03-12 Thread Steffen Macke
Hi, > One last thing: I see the text as double letters. > What I mean is, if I type "i", I see something like this: > . > | | > > > instead of: > . > | If you don't want outline (hollow) fonts, you should set the fill color to match your line color in the properties of the Outline text object. N

Re: text parallel diagonal lines

2009-03-12 Thread Kevin Wilson
serif. It was the same. I also tried to change sizes. Also tried caps lock and it did not help. Any ideas if I can have here regular text as I get when using ordinary text tool ? I simply need to draw diagonal lines with long text near them (it is lengthy names of "c" methods) and this

Re: text parallel diagonal lines

2009-03-12 Thread Steffen Macke
Hi Kevin, >  - When I try "tools->outline", it draws a little "?", but it does > not let me enter text. There **is** a "rotation" when > opening properties dialog of an outline. > > Am I missing something ? Just one little thing: Enter your text through the properties dialog of the Outline tool.

Re: text parallel diagonal lines

2009-03-12 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hello, Thanks! - I downloaded 0.97-pre2 and build it. - when I tried to use enter text as before, when clicking right mouse and properties I did not see "rotation" option, - When I try "tools->outline", it draws a little "?", but it does not let me enter text. There **is** a "rotation" when openi

Re: text parallel diagonal lines

2009-03-11 Thread Steffen Macke
Hi Kevin, > Is there a way to add text so that it will be not horizontal but with some > slant ? The new Outline tool in Dia 0.97-pre2 supports text rotation. Simply add a new Outline text and specify the rotation angle in its properties. Regards, Steffen ___

text parallel diagonal lines

2009-03-11 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hello, Is there a way to add text so that it will be not horizontal but with some slant ? I simply have a diagram with diagonal lines (arrows of some flow), and I need to add names of methods parallel to these lines; I can do it of course with horizontal text, but I tried to draw the text in a

Re: How to break lines

2009-01-08 Thread Michael Ross
e. I attached an explanation. Mike 2009/1/5 waldbauernbub > in technical drawings it is common practise to break lines when they > cross each other on the drawing (no connection between these lines). I > found a solution to achieve this in dia, too: > > First draw the line which

Re: How to break lines

2009-01-08 Thread waldbauernbub
Sameer Sahasrabuddhe schrieb: 2009/1/5 waldbauernbub : in technical drawings it is common practise to break lines when they cross each other on the drawing (no connection between these lines). I found a solution to achieve this in dia, too: That's a cool thing to

Re: How to break lines

2009-01-05 Thread Sameer Sahasrabuddhe
2009/1/5 waldbauernbub : > in technical drawings it is common practise to break lines when they > cross each other on the drawing (no connection between these lines). I > found a solution to achieve this in dia, too: That's a cool thing to do. I never bothered about overlappin

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