Does everyone make large objects, or is it just how I am using Dia?

2014-07-25 Thread dunn
Howdy! I am just learning Dia and was about to try my hand at making some shapes. I notice the shapes I have used in Dia are very large, the borders are very thick at 0.1cm and the font is also large at 22.68pt (5/16"). As I make my shapes, I would want to make them so they fit 9 pt font s

Re: Does everyone make large objects, or is it just how I am using Dia?

2014-07-25 Thread Michael Ross
You should probably share the files of representative shape for people to talk sensibly about the. Shapes are created within a 1cm square area (or were when I last tried to make a shape). If you made them larger, then that could be the explanation. However the shape was sized, you should be able

Re: Does everyone make large objects, or is it just how I am using Dia?

2014-07-25 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:44 PM, dunn wrote: > Howdy! > > I am just learning Dia and was about to try my hand at making some shapes. > I notice the shapes I have used in Dia are very large, the borders are > very thick at 0.1cm and the font is also large at 22.68pt (5/16"). > > As I make my shap

Re: Does everyone make large objects, or is it just how I am using Dia?

2014-07-25 Thread dunn
Thanks, Mike! I actually didn't have any files or shapes to share because I was about to create some, but if I have other questions, can we add an attachment on the mailing list messages? I've actually been working on figuring out why the shapes are coded the way they are. I copied some into

Re: Does everyone make large objects, or is it just how I am using Dia?

2014-07-25 Thread dunn
Alex, Very good advice on the 40%. I tried that but for my multi-page diagram, Dia still printed the same 6 pages to pdf with the 40% part at the upper left of each page. So I tried importing the svg into Inkscape set to cm, but it then printed the text at 1/16" instead of 1/8" (Inkscape do

Double 'shapes' in shape files

2014-07-25 Thread dunn
If this is more of an svg question and not something particular to Dia, just let me know please! All through the sample files, the shapes have xml like this, with two calls to ellipses, rectangles, circles: ...but I get the same effect with just one call and a thicker stroke-width

Re: Does everyone make large objects, or is it just how I am using Dia?

2014-07-25 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, dunn! > I actually didn't have any files or shapes to share because I was about > to create some, but if I have other questions, can we add an attachment > on the mailing list messages? Yes. > I've actually been working on figuring out why the shapes are coded the > way they are. Qu

Re: Does everyone make large objects, or is it just how I am using Dia?

2014-07-25 Thread dunn
Andrey, Thanks! Sorry about the 'prefix' thing. It's just what I remembered from the manual, which is the same as the page link you sent. It says: As in the example, you may use "compound names". Many shapes have first part of its name to indicate the sheet in which they appear, but