On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 01:53:02AM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: > 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 diagram that looks good on the computer screen > > and then find it's rather difficult to turn it into what they actually > > want on paper (or web). > > That's completely different subject. > The base format for Dia is SVG, which, by the very nature of it, is seamlessly > scalable with bounds being only the resolution of the presentation medium. > But it's *not* "seamlessly scalable" because the individual components (of *any* of the types of objects that come with it) don't scale as well as the diagram as a whole. They will scale plus/minus a factor of two or so but beyond that they really don't work too well. Thus you *do* need to start with an appropriate sized 'sheet' if you want to print your diagram or use it as other than a single huge diagram.
I really like dia but I think it would be a whole lot more 'likeable' and generally applicable to casual users if it defaulted to something more tangible. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
