Margins for A4 sheet

2014-06-10 Thread Dumitru Ursu
Hello, I'm having some problems seeing/setting the margins for a A4 page; I've set up from preferences to color the A4 area with a light blue, but the whole canvas is painted; When I export to PDF I get a document of 4 pages, when I really need just one. Also, how do I scale the diagrams? Di

Re: Margins for A4 sheet

2014-06-10 Thread Dumitru Ursu
On 06/10/2014 12:29 PM, Dumitru Ursu wrote: Hello, I'm having some problems seeing/setting the margins for a A4 page; I've set up from preferences to color the A4 area with a light blue, but the whole canvas is painted; When I export to PDF I get a document of 4 pages, when I really need just

Re: Margins for A4 sheet

2014-06-10 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Dumitru Ursu! > Also, as a note for developers: can't the infinite canvas be made > optional? Having one A4 sheet by default is the way people are acustomed > to work. I don't know such people myself. Everyone I know used to work on an infinite canvas, and print only the parts they ne

Re: Margins for A4 sheet

2014-06-10 Thread Michael Ross
Right you can show the margin boundaries - if they are set to contrast with the background. You can change the Scale of the page at the Page Setup menu to be practically infinite if you like that. The world can fit inside an A4 sheet if you like, or you can adjust it as needs be. I think that D

Re: Margins for A4 sheet

2014-06-10 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 02:56:06PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Dumitru Ursu! > > > Also, as a note for developers: can't the infinite canvas be made > > optional? Having one A4 sheet by default is the way people are acustomed > > to work. > > I don't know such people myself. Everyone

Re: Margins for A4 sheet

2014-06-10 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 09:23:59AM -0400, Michael Ross wrote: >Right you can show the margin boundaries - if they are set to contrast >with the background. >You can change the Scale of the page at the Page Setup A menu to be >practically infinite if you like that. A The world can fi

Re: Margins for A4 sheet

2014-06-10 Thread Dumitru Ursu
On 06/10/2014 10:59 PM, Chris Green wrote: Well I for one have (more than once) said that I'd like it to be much easier than it is at present to print diagrams on A4. Surely the usual way most people thank about a 'picture of something' is one that can be presented fairly sensibly on a sheet of

Re: Margins for A4 sheet

2014-06-10 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:05:43PM +0300, Dumitru Ursu wrote: > On 06/10/2014 10:59 PM, Chris Green wrote: > >Well I for one have (more than once) said that I'd like it to be much > >easier than it is at present to print diagrams on A4. > > > >Surely the usual way most people thank about a 'picture

Re: Need guidance about basic shapes

2014-06-10 Thread Marchand Eric
Hi, here is an example : - http://www.daa.com.au/~james/dia-shape-ns"; xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";> mesure_commande mesure_commande.png 2 ---

Re: Margins for A4 sheet

2014-06-10 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Chris Green! > I thinks that's right. The inexperienced user (me, for example) tends > to dive in with a diagram that they want to draw before thinking about > details of how it will scale when they want to print it or put it into > a web page or whatever. > They complete a lovely dia

Re: Need guidance about basic shapes

2014-06-10 Thread Michael Ross
I am not into shape creation, but isn't that what you are doing here - adding text to a shape? Bhanu wants to add text to a tool such as an arc or line. Can that be done with the method you have shown? On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Marchand Eric wrote: > Hi, > here is an example : > -

Re: Margins for A4 sheet

2014-06-10 Thread Michael Ross
Chris, Not every drawing is a circuit diagram. Dia is designed to be general purpose, so some tasks require that you use Dia the way a generalized program requires it. If you want to do circuit diagrams then the a specific software may very well be easier for that task. However, that software