Italics in Dia PDF export

2011-02-09 Thread LIST, John W.
Hello everyone, I've been a happy Dia user in various environments for quite a while now so it was with some surprise that I encountered my first limitation in its use. Simply put, I can create italic text in my Dia diagrams, I can happily export that italic text in raster graphic formats an

Re: Is it possible to force a 'grab' rather than a resize for small objects?

2011-02-09 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 03:21:01PM +, Chris G wrote: > I have some small arc objects on some of my diagrams and they're very > difficult to move as it's nearly impossible not to hit one of the resize > end/mid points. Is there any way one can force a move rather than a > resize? > No answers

Re: Is it possible to force a 'grab' rather than a resize for small objects?

2011-02-09 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:23:32 -0800, Chris G wrote: On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 03:21:01PM +, Chris G wrote: I have some small arc objects on some of my diagrams and they're very difficult to move as it's nearly impossible not to hit one of the resize end/mid points. Is there any way one can f

Re: Is it possible to force a 'grab' rather than a resize for small objects?

2011-02-09 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 04:00:19AM -0800, Octavio Alvarez wrote: > On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:23:32 -0800, Chris G wrote: > > >On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 03:21:01PM +, Chris G wrote: > >>I have some small arc objects on some of my diagrams and they're very > >>difficult to move as it's nearly imposs

Resolution in PNG export

2011-02-09 Thread Edheldil
Hi all, recently I was exporting some diagram to PNG and found out that only one PNG exporter allowed to set size of the resulting picture - the others were using some nonobvious and ridiculously low resolution, so that even though I had set up page size as A4 (and my drawing covered it), the resu

Re: Problem installing Dia 0.97.1: "libatk1.0-0 dependencyunsatisfiable"

2011-02-09 Thread Steffen Macke
Hi David, On 02/09/2011 04:26 AM, David Friedman wrote: Thanks for the response. I'm using Hardy because it works and I have everything customized. Are you saying there's no way to resolve the dependency issue - even if I build from source? If you build from source, I'm pretty sure that you'll

Re: Italics in Dia PDF export

2011-02-09 Thread Steffen Macke
Hi John, On 02/09/2011 12:15 PM, LIST, John W. wrote: Simply put, I can create italic text in my Dia diagrams, I can happily export that italic text in raster graphic formats and in SVG, yet the italicisation disappears when I export to PDF or Postscript. I was able to reproduce your problem.

Re: Question regarding text alignment

2011-02-09 Thread Steffen Macke
Hi Xavi, On 02/03/2011 04:07 PM, Xavier Marchador wrote: I've started using DIA to draw network diagrams and I can't find a way to write parallel text above or under a diagonal line. that is to say, I can write text and set the Text alignment and the vertical alignment but I miss the rotate cl

Re: Is it possible to force a 'grab' rather than a resize for small objects?

2011-02-09 Thread Hans Breuer
At 09.02.2011 13:25, Chris G wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 04:00:19AM -0800, Octavio Alvarez wrote: On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:23:32 -0800, Chris G wrote: On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 03:21:01PM +, Chris G wrote: I have some small arc objects on some of my diagrams and they're very difficult to

Re: Is it possible to force a 'grab' rather than a resize for small objects?

2011-02-09 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 09:44:45PM +0100, Hans Breuer wrote: > At 09.02.2011 13:25, Chris G wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 04:00:19AM -0800, Octavio Alvarez wrote: > >>On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:23:32 -0800, Chris G wrote: > >> > >>>On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 03:21:01PM +, Chris G wrote: > I h

Re: Is it possible to force a 'grab' rather than a resize for small objects?

2011-02-09 Thread Ron Wilson
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:50 PM, wrote: > Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 21:50:08 + > From: Chris G > > The 'use' case is in circuit diagrams where I much prefer the use of > little arcs to indicate that wires are not connected when crossing > rather than the convention that crossing wires are not con