Re: font scaling

2004-11-14 Thread Jon A. Solworth
Vaclav, I use dia for pdflatex (which uses .pdf) graphics and you can also use it for latex to produces .ps. After extensive experimentation, I found the best way was to export to fig format and then have fig produce the .pdf and .pdftex_t files. Attached is a small script to prod

How to type accents?

2004-11-14 Thread asierra
Hello: In the old versions of dia one was able to type accents with an international keyboard. Dia currently supports utf8 and latin1 (iso-8859-1) so I can edit the dia file and introduce the accent but I cant with the Text object. I am using a recent CVS version and I know it is not the first tim

diaV0.94-good but some bugs

2004-11-14 Thread Olaf Scheidt
Olaf Scheidt 20.08.04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Dia-Team, I hope you understand my english. The Dia Tool is very great. My professors are really impressed what your developed tool can do. I have used it for a network presentation at my university here in Ger

arc standard with text

2004-11-14 Thread mario diaz
hello my name is Mario ,and modifies the standard arch by dia, and I put a text. I work with the version 0.90, and he wanted to know since I have to do they to be sent by the modificacoin that I did I do not speak English this message envie with help of a translator, if something is not understood

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2004-11-14 Thread chris oloo
hi, i'm french, and i have discover dia when i update my mandrake 10.0 to 10.1 :) dia is really funny, i love it :) but there is one little matter i find there are to few electrical symbol to do a simple scheme.(i'm a student in electrical work and i make scheme often) i mean i can help you to

mind mapping/topic mapping/dependency mapping?

2004-11-14 Thread Mike
I have a requirement to create a picture of all the dependencies of my servers and their applications. I don't want to draw the picture/diagram nor do I wanto maintain that image. What I want (unless someone has a better idea) is to create a file of dependencies (A: B C D -> B/C/D all depend on A)

paste buffer

2004-11-14 Thread Claude Girard
I would like to past object done with Dia into other windows programs ( like word or DesignWorks) but it seems the format created does not create compatible object. Is it possible to paste into other windows programs. Salutations! Claude Girard ___ Dia-li

Possible bug?

2004-11-14 Thread Leandro Lucarella
Hi, I'm trying to open an old dia file (I don't remember with wich version I created the file) in version 0.93 (Debian unstable) but I don't see the objects colors. Is this normal? Here's the problematic file: http://svn.llucax.hn.org/svn/facultad/tronco/arbol_mis_materias.dia And here's a PNG ex

exporting all layers in different files

2004-11-14 Thread Philippe C. Martin
Hi, I am new to dia and need to know wether it is possible to export all layers in different files (named after the layers names + extentsion) Thanks, Philippe ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list F

Re: Adding a new diagram type (ORM plug-in)?

2004-11-14 Thread Eric Schabell
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:31:22AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Howdy all, > > > > I am working for a research group that has been testing Dia extensively as > > a > > permenant tool for drawing modeling diagrams. This seems to have resulted > > in > > positive responses from all the users,

JPEG62.DLL Missing

2004-11-14 Thread Meriam, Thomas
Title: JPEG62.DLL Missing I tried to import a .JPG picture and got: "The dynamic link library jpeg62.dll could not be found in the specified path C:\Program files\Dia\Bin;C:\Winnt\system32…." JPEG62.dll is not on my C: anywhere. ??? Thanks. --Tom in Concord   [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: 0.94 on XP: installation problems

2004-11-14 Thread Steffen Macke
Dear Alan, > liked what they saw. They downloaded 0.94 and > tried to install it. They saw two problems: > Dia crashed frequently, and when it did not crash > the screen redraws were slow and infrequent. > > They have switched to 0.92 and are using it without > problem. Thanks for the feedback

dia in Polish

2004-11-14 Thread Dr. Andrzej Cichy
Hi, I DLed dia ver. 0.94, and since my XP Pro is in Polish the program was installed with almost all menus in Polish. Hence two questions: 1. Prefer to have English interface. I was counting to have access to Preferences. 2. So second problem. There is English help file where in Customization c

dia 0.94 install failure on freebsd w/ error " make: don't know how to make UML.sheet. Stop"

2004-11-14 Thread S P
I've seen JB & Lars's threads below on dia-list mailinglist.(I'm not on it so if anyone has solution, please cc: me directly). And, on my FreeBsd box I tried to install dia 0.94 from source and ran into the same problem JD mentioned. I went to http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/ for updates/patch

dia in Polish

2004-11-14 Thread Dr. Andrzej Cichy
Hi, I found Preferences, but nothing about selecting language of interface Please help me Dr. Andrzej Cichy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Int'l American School Warszawa Polska -- Bar w Internecie wciaz bez cenzury! >>> http://link.interia.

Using the Circuit library

2004-11-14 Thread Andrej Vodopivec
Hi, As a beginner trying to find a replacement for xfig I was so impressed by pointer and shape tools in the first 10 minutes that I spend hours trying overcome the problems inserting the first shape from the library. W

Re: [PATCH] in app/makefile.msc "all:" should be the first target

2004-11-14 Thread Steffen Macke
Ulf, did you read the document below? http://dia-installer.sourceforge.net/dia_win32_compilation.html I hope it's not too outdated. Steffen ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.

How about C++ code generation?

2004-11-14 Thread Olaf Beckman Lapré
Hi,   How about putting C++ code generation in DIA, preferably round-trip capable? Tip: put the user code blocks between begin-end markers, and generate the rest each time anew. Coder can put in custom blocks (begin_global, end_global to add a global variables section for example).   Regards

adding stencils to dia

2004-11-14 Thread andre passamani // maratimba
Hey, I work as information architect in Sao Paulo City Hall and Telecentros Projects, down there in Brazil. We are the biggest gnome users in latin america (more than 2,500 PCs). So, dia is something really good to me but, I spend lotta time to improvise my stencils... I thought if I could add

Re: Scaling, printing, etc. in Dia

2004-11-14 Thread Sven Herzberg
Am Sa, den 18.09.2004 schrieb Chris Green um 18:11: > I've discovered the 'Page Setup' window but I can't see how that > helps. If you set it to "Fit to: 1 by 1" then the page varies in size > as you draw which is most distracting and the edge of the drawing is > at the edge of the paper with no m

Dia / Ground and Earth

2004-11-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, first, I want to thank you about Dia... Because it's exactly what I need. Some suggestions : About symbols : (Circuit) | - --- - is earth (not ground) but | - / / / / is ground (and should be add) Moreover, you should add European Operational Amplifier (it's a rectangle with +

Re: Object / sheets

2004-11-14 Thread Eric Schabell
Howdy all, Again I am posting as I am really stuck here. I would like to get these implemented as stated below, but the icon views as seen in my sheet look terrible. Anyone have an idea why they look so sad and small? I have even tried editing the .shape files but this does nothing with the icon

Compile problems on SuSE 9.0

2004-11-14 Thread Patrik Thalin
The problem seems to be in the wmf plugin. Any ideas? I get the folowing error: linux:/usr/local/dia/dia-0.94/plug-ins # make Making all in cgm make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/dia/dia-0.94/plug-ins/cgm' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/dia/dia

New to dia devt... current CVS minor problem

2004-11-14 Thread Andy Piper
Hi folks, I'm new to Dia development but have generally been making a nuisance of myself in Bugzilla lately so thought I'd drop onto the list to say hello. I couldn't get current CVS to build on my FC1 system. make failed in the app folder with an error about unresolved symbols. After scratching

Problem reducing size for my Puppy Linux distro

2004-11-14 Thread Barry Kauler
Hi guys, Could someone kindly advise me about a difficulty that I am having with setting up Dia. I am the developer of Puppy Linux, which is under 50M live-CD yet with an amazing collection of apps. I want to add Dia, but I need to cut the size a bit. I targetted the sheets -- I ran them through g

print problems with dia.

2004-11-14 Thread lightwaveship
Hello , I have just tried to use your application. I had no trouble with the features, until i tried to print my finished document. The scale is unbelievably huge and cannot be reduced to a single 8*11 sheet. I have tried everything suggested by your site and nothing works. Any help would be ap

how to display ext_attributes

2004-11-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello! Thanks for Dia and the ext_attribute feature. I want to create administrative shapes e.g. a server has got a name (string), an operation system(string) and is of type cluster(bool). This is no problem with ext_attribute. But i want these attributes to get displayed in svg. A box with t

mp output broke?

2004-11-14 Thread cali
I exported a diagram from dia 0.92.2 as a metapost tex macro, the mp file was processed with mpost version 0.641 and the resulting .1 file was ok and worked in the latex file. I tried the same in dia 9.4 and mpost choked saying: C:\Documents and Settings\onionhead\Desktop\currentwork> This is MetaP

How to add points (corners) to a polygon?

2004-11-14 Thread Keith Bremer
Dear Dia People, This program is a really nice little tool - I use it quite a lot to produce UML, ERD and database design models. However, I've encountered a situation where I'd really like to draw a >3-sided polygon and I can't see how. When I add a polygon to a diagram I get a triangle

Trouble with link

2004-11-14 Thread Jefferson Miguel Goncalves Ferreira
Theres a trouble in this link!The latest bleeding edge version can be found in the Gnome CVS tree.I want a for Windows Version for Dia Draw! Can you help me?!Thanks,Jefferson___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinf

UTF-8 Charset & Java Plugin Development - Problems

2004-11-14 Thread joel
Dear Friends, I'm writing a kind of a Java module that generates Dia diagrams, but I'm facing some problems related to the UTF-8 File format. My Java class generates a file but when I try to open it using Dia comes a message saying the file format is unknown. Altough it is in the very beginning I'

Dia Win32 error

2004-11-14 Thread Shu Hung (Koala)
Hello, I've installed the Win32 version of Dia recently. When I start the program, a command prompt windows poped up and give me an error message repeatly: "** (dia.exe:3820): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "新細明體 9" falling back to " Even after the program windows appeared, the command prompt wind

missing feature.

2004-11-14 Thread Peter Kovacs
Hi Dia-fans. I try to cartograph a Opensource Project with UML.Diagramms. It is nice and uncomplicated to do, but the descriptions for the Method is too long (about 4 pages wide by 0.5 letters) Is there any possibility to break the line? Peter ___ Dia

Dia on TheOpenCD v2.0

2004-11-14 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Hello, Just writing to let you know that Dia has been selected for v2.0 of TheOpenCD scheduled for release in December. This is a compilation of the very best user-level FOSS available on the Windows platform. The program selection is slowly growing as more desktop applications mature, but the

sequence diagram support

2004-11-14 Thread Ing. Jiri Biba
Dear developers of Dia, thank you for you product, it's usefull in many ways. However, if you thought of upgrade, it would be pleasant if Dia supported sequence diagrams as well. Take it as a comment and an idea for a further development. Best regards, Ing. Jiri Biba --- Czech Technical Univer

Dia hex-grid vs. triangular grid

2004-11-14 Thread Felix Shvaiger
Hi All, Hex-grid is great idea (I see it in v0.94) ! As evolution of it, I think, triangular grid should be added or even hex-grid should be replaced with triangular. Triangular grid has all features and advantages of hex-grid (in fact, tri-grid is exactly hex-grid with extra point in center of hex

Change fill color from Python

2004-11-14 Thread Magnus Henoch
I want to change the fill color of an object from a Python function. I try the following in the Python console, where obj is an object: color = dia.DiaColor(1.0, 0.0, 0.0) TypeError: cannot create 'DiaColor' instances color = obj.properties["fill_colour"].value # works obj.properties["fill_

Re: sequence diagram support

2004-11-14 Thread Alexander
Ing. Jiri Biba schrieb: Dear developers of Dia, thank you for you product, it's usefull in many ways. However, if you thought of upgrade, it would be pleasant if Dia supported sequence diagrams as well. Take it as a comment and an idea for a further development. Best regards, Ing. Jiri Biba --- I

Re: How about C++ code generation?

2004-11-14 Thread Alan Horkan
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, [iso-8859-1] Olaf Beckman Lapré wrote: > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:41:00 +0100 > From: "[iso-8859-1] Olaf Beckman Lapré" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How about C++ code generation? > > Hi, > > How about putting C++ code generation in DIA, preferably

Re: dia in Polish

2004-11-14 Thread Alan Horkan
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Dr. Andrzej Cichy wrote: > Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:09:21 +0200 > From: Dr. Andrzej Cichy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: discussions about usage and development of dia > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: dia in Polish > > Hi, > > I DLed dia ver. 0.9

Re: adding stencils to dia

2004-11-14 Thread Alan Horkan
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, andre passamani // maratimba wrote: > Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 06:31:25 -0700 (PDT) > From: andre passamani // maratimba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: adding stencils to dia > > Hey, > > > I work as information architect in Sao Paulo City Hall and > Tel

Re: How to add points (corners) to a polygon?

2004-11-14 Thread Alan Horkan
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Keith Bremer wrote: > Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 17:51:30 + > From: Keith Bremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: discussions about usage and development of dia > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How to add points (corners) to a polygon? > > Dear Dia

Re: Trouble with link

2004-11-14 Thread Alan Horkan
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Jefferson Miguel Goncalves Ferreira wrote: > Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:29:57 -0300 (ART) > From: Jefferson Miguel Goncalves Ferreira > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: discussions about usage and development of dia > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subjec

Re: Dia hex-grid vs. triangular grid

2004-11-14 Thread Alan Horkan
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Felix Shvaiger wrote: > Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:30:42 +0200 > From: Felix Shvaiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: discussions about usage and development of dia > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Dia hex-grid vs. triangular grid

Re: dia

2004-11-14 Thread Alan Horkan
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, [iso-8859-1] chris oloo wrote: > Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:40:41 +0200 (CEST) > From: "[iso-8859-1] chris oloo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: discussions about usage and development of dia > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: dia > > hi, > i'm frenc

Re: mind mapping/topic mapping/dependency mapping?

2004-11-14 Thread Alan Horkan
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Mike wrote: > Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:07:32 -0500 > From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: discussions about usage and development of dia > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: mind mapping/topic mapping/dependency mapping? > > I have a requirement t

dia 0.94 Win32, Save failed

2004-11-14 Thread Juergen Zimmermann
Hi, I use DIA 0.94 (German) on Win98-System. I create a Draw and save it. Then I modify it and would save it again with file - save or Strg+S but I get two messages and the saving failed: "Die Ausgabedatei C:\Daten... konnte nicht geöffnet werden. No such file or directory." "Datei ... konnte ni

dia 0.94 Win32, double-click on dia-file failed

2004-11-14 Thread Juergen Zimmermann
Hi, I use DIA 0.94 (German) on Win98-System. When I would open a dia-file with double-click, then I get an error from LIBGTK-Win32-2.0-0.DLL. Please see the attached GIF. When I open a file in DIA with file - open, there are no errors. Is there a workaround or solution to stop this? Thanks Jür