You will probably have to draw the cloud with bezier curves. At the
moment dia's rendering model doesn't handle filling areas partially
bounded by elliptic arcs, so the bezier option will probably give better
results anyway.
James.
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On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Ben Greear wrote:
> I'm trying to make a network cloud shape, and having a hard
> time! I was able to draw a fairly nice one out using only
> arcs, but I can't see any way to transfer that into a shape
> object so I can re-use it at will.
>
> So, is there any planned support for ARCs in the
> SVG syntax? (By ARC I mean the object that is under the 'T'
> icon.)
>
> Also, would it be possible to surround a portion of the canvas
> in a square/rectangle, and have that be saved as a shape, or
> some sort of library object that you could load through a menu
> and treat it as an individual entity?
>
> Any other ideas on how to do a network-cloud object? I think
> the major drawback of DIA is that it has such a small library
> of pre-defined objects, but other than that...pretty cool! :)
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
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