On Thursday 15 August 2002 10:22 am, Tim Ellis wrote: > On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:41:17 -0500 > > Eddie Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't > > understand the scale of things, but I don't ever print diagrams anyhow - > > just build them for their thought-provokingness - so I honestly don't > > care much about sizes. > > I know, I snipped the parts where he says: "Dia is great!" (I certainly > agree with the sentiment, and I bet most here do...) -- but he's got a > point in this "I misunderstand scaling" sentence here. The default size at > least for UML diagramming (and I assume everything else) is that about > four objects can fit on a single A4-size piece of paper, maybe 8 if you > cram them. > > Objects seem a bit... LARGE. > > I scale all my diagrams down to about 18-30% size, which seems a little > more sane. Is there a rationale for the current default scaling? Am I & > Eddie the only two that think it might be tweaked?
No, I have to agree with you Tim. Scaling has always been a problem for me and I usually go down to 20% to get the best results. I'm normally using ER but have used UML and Network shapes. _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
