How can I customize dia for default startup properties?
Is there a configuration file in which things like
text: default font, center/left/right text, size, color
ruler on/off,
etc.
can be selected as default?
Gernot D. Kleiter
Dept. of Psychology
Univ. Salzburg
Austria
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On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, gernot kleiter wrote:
> How can I customize dia for default startup properties?
> Is there a configuration file in which things like
> text: default font, center/left/right text, size, color
> ruler on/off,
> etc.
> can be selected as default?
A number of diagram d
> Another question is: What is the procedure of creating custom sheets with
> custom shapes? When I do it like this:
> -create shape and save it (in directory ~/.dia/shapes)
> -export it to dia shape format
> -create new sheet or select any old one.
> -add the newly created shape to the she
Hello!
I'm just starting to play with Dia after much fighting with many other
similar apps and I'm very happy. BUT printing is all messed up.
When I print a page the right hand 2-3cm is chopped off.
If I reset the print margins I see no diference.
If I swap to landscape mode I see no differe
> I'm in the US so I'm using letter sized paper.
AFAIK, that is exactly your problem.
US Letter is narrower than A4
so the on screen lines will be misleading.
Hopefully you can workaround it.
"The thing about standards is there are so many to choose from"
Patches welcome of course but from my
> > I'm in the US so I'm using letter sized paper.
> AFAIK, that is exactly your problem.
>
> US Letter is narrower than A4
> so the on screen lines will be misleading.
I used to live in the UK and I've run across this one before ;)
Infact ANSI A paper is .6cm wider and 1.8cm shorter.
This is
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Nick Fisher wrote:
>> > I'm in the US so I'm using letter sized paper.
>> AFAIK, that is exactly your problem.
>>
>> US Letter is narrower than A4
>> so the on screen lines will be misleading.
> I used to live in the UK and I've run across this one before ;) Infact
> ANSI A pa
> >> > I'm in the US so I'm using letter sized paper.
> >> AFAIK, that is exactly your problem.
> >>
> >> US Letter is narrower than A4
> >> so the on screen lines will be misleading.
> > I used to live in the UK and I've run across this one before ;)
> Infact
> > ANSI A paper is .6cm wider and 1.
What I've done in the past to work around this is set my page to letter in all places
necessary, then gone to the page setup dialog, clicked "Fit to" 1 by 1, or whatever I
wanted to fit to, then clicked back up to the scale option and reduced it slightly
from there. It's kind of a hassle, but i
Hi,
There has been a little quiet on the dia-list lately especially has
there been far between the Changelog reports, which made me think a
little on the status of dia-cvs.
So, as a both interested and courious dia-user, would I like to know
how far the different porting projects (Pango & GObject
> I was trying to stay away from expensive bloatware by using Dia. Know of
> any good SVG viewer/printers on Win32? The only free one I've found is the
> Adobe SVG viewer and that only appears to work in IE.
there are mozilla builds with SVG support but it is not great.
To change the subject, I
> I spent a large chunk of yesterday evening taking SVG files from
> OpenOffice, and changing them into .shape files so that Dia would
> import
> them.
> All i had to do was put the svg: namespace in front of every SVG tag
> and
> change the colour values from rgb(0,0,0) to hexidecimal values then
One of the abiword developers noticed these comments and asked me to pass
on these ideas as it may be similar to problems that Abiword has
encountered.
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/May/0085.html
(i am just the messenger i and i rarely print anything so i am even less
help
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Torben H. Nielsen wrote:
> Hi,
> There has been a little quiet on the dia-list lately especially has
> there been far between the Changelog reports, which made me think a
> little on the status of dia-cvs.
>
> So, as a both interested and courious dia-user, would I like to kno
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, James Michael DuPont wrote:
> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:36:08 -0800 (PST)
> From: James Michael DuPont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: SVG Import [Re: Noob can't print right on Win32]
>
>
> > I spent a large chunk o
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Torben H. Nielsen wrote:
>
> Are there any plugins in beta state which needs a hand to be working
> and (as good as) bugfree.
Ha, Alan mentions one right there: The SVG importer needs some kind of
work, talk with him about what's up.
-Lars
--
Lars Clausen (http://shasta.c
This is probably just noise, so forgive me.
But I was puzzled by the claim that FreeType
cannot be used under Win32 and the claim
"Apart from a standard ANSI C library, FreeType 2 doesn't
have any external dependencies and can be compiled and
installed on its own on any kind of system."
http://fre
> -Original Message-
> From: Nick Fisher [mailto:Nick@;nickdafish.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 October 2002 6:05 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Alan Horkan
> Subject: Re: Noob can't print right on Win32
>
>
[snip]
> I'm wondering if this is a Dia thing or a Win32 Dia thing.
haven't tried Di
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Alan G. Isaac wrote:
> This is probably just noise, so forgive me.
> But I was puzzled by the claim that FreeType
> cannot be used under Win32 and the claim
> "Apart from a standard ANSI C library, FreeType 2 doesn't
> have any external dependencies and can be compiled and
> in
> It is currently broken (just once more: please read 'Heads up on
> Pango Head') cause it uses fontconfig which appears to work on X
> but IMHO needs a complete rewrite to fit into the win32 platform.
But it's only HEAD of Pango that uses fontconfig; shouldn't pangoft2
in the pango-1-0 branch
--- Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Alan G. Isaac wrote:
> > This is probably just noise, so forgive me.
> > But I was puzzled by the claim that FreeType
> > cannot be used under Win32 and the claim
> > "Apart from a standard ANSI C library, FreeType 2 doesn't
> > ha
--- Tor Lillqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It is currently broken (just once more: please read 'Heads up on
> > Pango Head') cause it uses fontconfig which appears to work on X
> > but IMHO needs a complete rewrite to fit into the win32 platform.
>
> But it's only HEAD of Pango that uses
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, James Michael DuPont wrote:
>
> --- Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Alan G. Isaac wrote:
>> > This is probably just noise, so forgive me.
>> > But I was puzzled by the claim that FreeType
>> > cannot be used under Win32 and the claim
>> > "Apart
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> > It is currently broken (just once more: please read 'Heads up on
> > Pango Head') cause it uses fontconfig which appears to work on X
> > but IMHO needs a complete rewrite to fit into the win32 platform.
>
> But it's only HEAD of Pango that uses fon
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