Scaling multiply Objects to same size

2013-09-04 Thread DEWI - N. Zacharias
Hi all, I'm new to Dia and it looks good at the first glance. But there is one issue which bothers me. I have some objects and I want to set them to the same size which is the size of the biggest object. At the moment I only able to do this by select object by object and scale them manually. Al

Re: Scaling multiply Objects to same size

2013-09-04 Thread Michael Ross
Hi Norbert, I am not quite sure whether you mean "object" to be what we call shapes, or groups of entities (shapes and tools), or the just the tools, like ellipse, text and rectangle. There is a lot of variety and the shapes have come into being over many years, so there is a certain lack of unif

AW: Scaling multiply Objects to same size

2013-09-04 Thread DEWI - N. Zacharias
Hi Mike, thanks for this quick reply ! > -- Dipl. Phys. Norbert Zacharias Wind Measurements & Power Curve Measurements DEWI GmbH Ebertstrasse 96 26382 Wilhelmshaven Germany Tel.: +49 4421 4808 876 Fax: +49 4421 4808 843 Em

Re: Scaling multiply Objects to same size

2013-09-04 Thread Michael Ross
Norbert, the best thing of all with Dia, you can make what you want in a shape. If you want a bounding box around a particular shape you can likely make it yourself. Once you figure that out, you can probably reproduce it easily for other shapes. You can even create your own properties to go wit

Re: Scaling multiply Objects to same size

2013-09-04 Thread Bao Niu
Creating your own shapes only takes xml, but creating your own objects with tailored properties will involve C++ coding, which is very prohibiting. Is my understanding correct? On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Michael Ross wrote: > Norbert, the best thing of all with Dia, you can make what you