On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Florian-Daniel Otel wrote:
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>>>
>>> >> I am currently trying the dia-0.83 release and i have to admit i
>>> >> really like it to the point that i am considering in switching to it
>>> >> as my default drawing tool.
>>>
>>> > Curious. What is your "default drawing tool," currently?
>>>
>>> xfig. But that was not the point, was it :) ?
>>>
>>>
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>> No, I didn't think that that was the point... of your mail, anyhow.
>> I've just started using Dia, myself and although I like it, I am still
>> on the prowl for other modeling/drawing tools.
>
> For vector graphics xfig is stable and featured. It has some nice
> features in there i would like to see in dia, e.g. manually tag objects
> to create compound objects, shade areas, rotate objects, more export file
> formats, etc -- and i _strongly_ hope they will get into dia, in time.
[Now why did this come out reversed?]
Export file formats is just a question of people writing them, nothing
magic there. Rotation has been asked about before -- basically, X does not
rotate text (or, I think, rectangles and ellipses). One solution would be
to write into a buffer, then rotate the buffer, but the results are rarely
pretty. I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'shade areas'? Compound
objects are created from the objects that are selected, which can be done
manually or by selecting an area (would like to have Select All, Select
Inverse, Select by Type and such, though).
> But xfig is quite old and there are somethings in there which i don't
> like and i hope dia will fix them.
That's just why I came to Dia. Between all the developers, and especially
Alex and James, we've managed to get quite far.
-Lars
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