"Ben A. Hetland" a écrit :
> Lars Clausen wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 03 May 2001, Ben A. Hetland wrote:
> [...]
> > > If so, I think I have observed a similar erraneous behavior when working
> > > with a diagram on multiple computers having different screen resolution
> > > (and also Win32<->Linux). In my case however, the lines' end points just
> > > end up far away from the element it's connected to, and they look like
> > > they're not connected at all (but they are!). This is only initially
> > > after opening the file -- as soon as I move the element around, the
> > > line pops into place again. Annoying...
> >
> > I could imagine this being caused by fonts being of different size on
> > different platforms. Does this also happen when no text is involved?
>
> I have mainly used the UML elements when I discovered this, but I'm not
> sure if it occurred on every possible combination of migrating the
> files.
> (At the moment I'm a bit stuck with a half-empty brand new machine...
> so I have a lot to reinstall.) I.e., I observed it especially on the
> right edges of UML Class objects, but they definitely do involve fonts,
> as you point out. They also have the property that they determine their
> own size (depending on font?).
>
I've read that those UML elements aren't scalable, cause their size is based on the
length of the
contained text, which depends on the screen res (for drawing and aproximation), the
font name and
the font size.
>
> I could not observe any such erraneous behavior in this simple test.
> (Not to say that it never occurs, though, this was just a very quick
> check.) So maybe you're right about the fonts, Lars!
>
I DO think he is right !
Cyril
