Dia grid snapping

seful in flowcharting) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujMhxPJnJCw It would be cool to have a feature like this in Dia. It makes you ultra-fast. Thank you, -- Dumitru Ursu Director executiv, Fundația Ceata Calea Călărași nr. 57, ap. 2, București Secretariat: +40-761-810-100 Susții libertatea art

Changing styles on selected objects

Hello, My name is Dumitru Ursu, I'm a Computer Science student from Republic of Moldova. I'm using Dia to make the UML diagrams for my thesis project. It works nicely, it's much more stable than Umbrello (although that on got better too), and it has more features. One fea

Re: More features

On 02/01/2014 08:30 PM, Octavio Alvarez wrote: On 01/31/2014 12:01 PM, Hans Breuer wrote: At 31.01.2014 17:24, Octavio Alvarez wrote: Might be useful or might crash and burn your files ;-) Not that I think that Dia master is in a bad shape, but recently I found and fixed some huge leaks. So befo

Re: More features

On 02/01/2014 10:11 PM, Hans Breuer wrote: At 01.02.2014 19:46, Dumitru Ursu wrote: On 02/01/2014 08:30 PM, Octavio Alvarez wrote: [...] Then again I tested it in 0.97.2 and it's broken too. :-/ This is a show stopper for those that need exporting with alpha channel. Is is possib

Re: I wanted to know when is the next release? or is this no longer supported

On 02/27/2014 09:52 PM, Zou, Yixiong wrote: I have the same question. I am looking for an open source alternative for commercial software like Visio. I’ve researched quite a few diagraming tools. Dia is the one that has the most of the features that I am looking for. The converter from Vi

Re: Upcoming Dia 0.97.3 bug-fix-only

On 03/08/2014 03:04 PM, Hans Breuer wrote: Some more fixes from master just got cherry-picked to the dia-0-97 branch. Before I do another bug fix only release from that branch I would like to get some feedback from you. The list of fixed bugs is relatively short http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglis

Re: Upcoming Dia 0.97.3 bug-fix-only

On 03/10/2014 10:17 PM, Hans Breuer wrote: At 08.03.2014 23:44, Dumitru Ursu wrote: On 03/08/2014 03:04 PM, Hans Breuer wrote: Some more fixes from master just got cherry-picked to the dia-0-97 branch. Before I do another bug fix only release from that branch I would like to get some

Re: Upcoming Dia 0.97.3 bug-fix-only

On 03/10/2014 10:28 PM, Dumitru Ursu wrote: Microsoft® Visio® 2010 Step by Step Practice Files <http://examples.oreilly.com/9780735648876-files/> <- Visio import doesn't work with these files. (it complains about a tag) /home/dimon/HR Process Map_start.vsd:1: parser err

Re: Family Tree

On 03/11/2014 02:38 PM, Wayne Babb wrote: I have the same problem as this post:- "On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Julian Hagenauer uni-heidelberg de > wrote: Hi, i want to draw a tree. The nodes s

Re: Dia in Windows 8.1

On 03/18/2014 01:51 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: dia --integrated Which is quite clearly written in the `dia --help'... Maybe there should be a shortcut for that, or a menu entry? Most of the windows users have no idea how to pass parameters to a program. Dima. ___

Re: Adding comments to an object

On 04/21/2014 11:09 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: I want to make a chart of historical information, and would like to >annotate the chart entry with additional information. I doubt you want to supply Dia along with your chart... Either you picked a wrong tool for the job, or you should rethink your ex

Re: Adding comments to an object

On 04/21/2014 06:16 PM, Ken Springer wrote: I'm creating an organizational chart structure of information. If I choose to, I want to be able to click on an object, in this case a rectangle, and have another box, or window, open somewhere that gives me additional information about the data in t

Re: Problem with printing of Dia sheets

On 05/07/2014 05:39 PM, Kunze, Sebastian wrote: Hello, My name is Sebastian Kunze and I´m process engineer of papermaking. I found your DIA program in the web to draw process maps in my factory. ... For a better Understanding I sent you a pdf of the problem. Hi Sebastian, Can you pro

Re: Unable to run Dia Software

On 05/21/2014 10:04 PM, boudzoumou chris wrote: Hello I send you this email to ask for help on using the software Dia (UML). I present the situation: I have installed Dia software on my Ubuntu computer. When I run Dia, two windows open then close immediately after (approximately 2 seconds).

Margins for A4 sheet

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

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 r

Re: Margins for A4 sheet

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

On 06/11/2014 03:43 PM, Michael Ross wrote: This is a common occurrence - a new user has a bunch of suggestions (that are often repeats of previous ones from years past) that are not informed by experience with the program, how open source work gets done, and an unwillingness to adapt to what

Re: Margins for A4 sheet

On 06/11/2014 06:11 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Again, you use the word "most" in which you only include yourself and your immediate surroundings. Yes, my opinion is based on my immediate surroundigs, that is true. But as I said in a previous replay, is not that hard to find who are the users of

Re: problem with opening a file

On 07/07/2014 05:56 PM, Ирина Тетеревкова wrote: Hi! I have a problem with Dia sofware. When i want to open svg file, Dia says: "PyDia Error (../../../plug-ins/python/diamodule.c:295): NotImplementedError('Unknown unit Q',)Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/dia/python/dias

Re: RV: Problem with the VSD2SVG

On 08/29/2014 04:48 PM, Federico Castelo wrote: > Besides that problema, when I can get the chance to open a file, it > is an image file with I cannot work with L. > > > > *De:*Federico Castelo *Enviado el:* viernes, 29 de agosto de 2014 > 09:34 *Para:* 'dia-list@gnome.org' *Asunto:* Problem wi

Re: Dia

On 10/28/2014 12:47 AM, Sheehan, John T wrote: > Hi folks, my name is John Sheehan and I am a software developer. Tim > (cc’ed here) and I are looking at Dia as a sketch tool to recommend to > our customers. > > Our product is Mathcad and our clients (engineers of every discipline) > live on free

Re: Autosave archive

On 11/24/2014 09:07 PM, Hector Emmanuel Ruelas Monroy wrote: > My laptop recently turned off and I was working on Dia. When I turned it > on again I realize that my file was save with the extention > ".dia~.autosave" but i don´t know how to open my file again... could you > help me? > You could t