Re: Doubts about Dia Program

2015-12-13 Thread vwf
Hello, Unfortunately, Microsoft is rather poor in supporting open standards. Dia can export images in numerous formats, but the only one I find useful is Ciaro PNG (with alpha) : PNG is the image format, Cairo the library generating the image, and alpha means that you have transparency

Re: need your help

2013-12-04 Thread vwf
The simplest trick I use is getting the symbols in libreoffice and copy/paste to dia. All use unicode. Success On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 06:01:32AM -0800, raji raji wrote: how do to add mathematical symbol need urgent for PPT presentation -- raji.v

Re: modifying text in text object

2013-07-31 Thread vwf
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 09:47:07AM +0200, hugo borrell wrote: I'm currently discovering Dia with great pleasure but would fancy modifying text in text objects : once created, it seems that it is not possible to change the text and I have to erase the whole object and create an new one. This is

Re: Size of page

2013-07-29 Thread vwf
In my Dia (version 0.97.2) A0 is the largest. And I do not see any option to set a custom size. I never had any need to set a page size but I do not think this the problem is solved yet. On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:02:08PM -0400, Michael Ross wrote: Go to File/Page Setup/Paper Size On

Re: DIA License

2013-06-14 Thread vwf
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:17:49AM -0300, Sergio Souza wrote: I want to know more about DIA´s license. Is it possible to use DIA in a corporate enviroment ? No problem at all: https://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq#Licensing In essence: Only when you (re)distribute (a modified version of) Dia, GPL

Re: eye-icon

2013-04-14 Thread vwf
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 09:32:11PM +0200, Hans Breuer wrote: No problem with two layers, but my current diagram has 6 and when I placed an item on the wrong layer it requires some layer on/off switching to find out on what layer it went. Same is true for many other programs that use

Re: invisible connector points

2013-01-24 Thread vwf
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 08:43:53AM -0500, Michael Ross wrote: Hi vwf, You can place the connection point shape (from the Electric sheet) and change its size to be large or smaller than the line itself, but you can't have many of them and change their size wholesale (there is probably

Re: Major problems with line width in export.?..?.

2013-01-24 Thread vwf
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:58:44PM +, Chris Damien wrote: I am using Dia to create flow chart diagrams for an important work project. It has been working fine, but I have one major problem. After exporting my finished diagram as a pdf, all the line widths that I set seem to reset in

invisible connector points

2013-01-22 Thread vwf
Hello, For some complex wiring I would like to have invisible connector points, points that I can use to connect lines, cleary visable within dia but hidden in the exported graphics file. Are these avaiable or can these be made? Thanks ___ dia-list

Re: Support with Dia

2013-01-17 Thread vwf
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 05:12:19PM +0100, Luigi Bossio wrote: now I need to export that diagram to my MS Word 2010. I tried by doing it with exporting but either I didn't do it correctly or it just doesn't work. I need to export that to Word otherwise your program is useless to me. I always

Re: svg export with svg embedded

2013-01-16 Thread vwf
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:47:45PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: For a new project I have some shapes that consist of a .shape- and a .svg-file: the .shape file contains connectors and size, and the shape itself is in the .svg-file. When I export my diagram as a svg-file, the included

svg export with svg embedded

2013-01-15 Thread vwf
Hello, I use dia successfully for several projects. Recently I stumbled over a problem: For a new project I have some shapes that consist of a .shape- and a .svg-file: the .shape file contains connectors and size, and the shape itself is in the .svg-file. When I export my diagram as a svg-file,

Re: Connect two lines?

2012-11-25 Thread vwf
Ohto, I think you can if you make connector points and draw lines between them. I think such point do not exist yet but creating them should be easy. Frits On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 09:09:50AM +0200, Ohto Nordberg wrote: I can connect a line to a box, but not line to line. I am trying to draw

svg to path

2012-10-05 Thread vwf
Hello, Would there be a (automated) way to come from a standard svg shape description (as produced by inkscape) towards the dia svg:path d=... shape description? This way I could edit shapes from within dia. Thanks ___ dia-list mailing list

Re: Icons/Symbols/Shapes

2012-06-16 Thread vwf
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:18:18AM +0200, Hans Breuer wrote: Am 16.06.2012 um 07:56 schrieb vwf: Usual response would be: please include your problematic shape file for analysis, but I've got it off-list. It appears handwritten instead of being based on an original shape export. I've

Re: Icons/Symbols/Shapes

2012-06-15 Thread vwf
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:19:20PM +0200, Hans Breuer wrote: Did you now switch to 0.97.2 on Linux, too? Or do you still need to read https://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2012-June/msg00013.html ? Switched AFAICT there is no portability issue for shapes between Linux and Windows versions

Re: Icons/Symbols/Shapes

2012-06-14 Thread vwf
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 09:35:41PM +0200, Hans Breuer wrote: Should work as well - except if your svg is too complicate for Dia to render. The subset of SVG supported by Dia directly (for shapes and import) is comparatively small to the subset supported by librsvg. What I do not understand is

Re: Icons/Symbols/Shapes

2012-06-10 Thread vwf
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 09:34:53AM +0200, Killian De Volder wrote: BTW what is wrong with this: svg:image x=0 y=0 width=32 height=32 xlink:href=./BoxBase.svg/ svg:image x=0 y=0 width=32 height=32 href=./BoxBase.svg/ probably... ___ dia-list

Re: swapping shapes

2012-06-09 Thread vwf
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 07:23:52PM +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote: On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 11:07:28 +0200, vwf v...@vulkor.net wrote: I have a series of shapes that are identical except for the image. Now I would like to be able to swap one shape for another one on the canvas. There might

Re: swapping shapes

2012-06-09 Thread vwf
On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 09:20:41AM +0200, Edheldil wrote: I compiled 0.97.2 from source but the confuration reported no Python support make sure you have python-dev package installed before configuring/building Got this part working: Dialog appeared, with Python Console and Dia Group

swapping shapes

2012-06-08 Thread vwf
Hello, I have a series of shapes that are identical except for the image. Now I would like to be able to swap one shape for another one on the canvas. When I look at the .dia file this should be achievable: change in dia:object type=mysensiblename version=1 id=O1 mysensiblename for

Re: shape default size

2012-06-07 Thread vwf
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 07:51:18AM +0200, vwf wrote: How do I set the default size of a shape? Thanks for the references. The answer was default-width5cm/default-width There is however a problem. When I do this on windows with dia 0.97.2, this works as expected. On my Debian Linux with Dia

svg in MS Windows

2012-06-06 Thread vwf
Hello, I made my own shapes and used svg images for the content. This works fine under Linux, but when using the same shapes in MS Windows, I get an error on loading: Couldn't recognise the image format for file C:\Do... Is this a MS problem or did I do something wrong? Thanks, Frits

Re: svg in MS Windows

2012-06-06 Thread vwf
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 09:55:47PM +0200, Steffen Macke wrote: Which Dia version do you use on Windows (and from where did you download it? - also there's the Portable version and the installer version). Information regarding the operating system might also help to backcheck on your problem.

Re: shapes with text

2012-06-01 Thread vwf
Hi, Thank you very much for your reply and your work. I still have to study the details to see how this is different from what I made working but it looks very interesting. Have a nice weekend, Frits On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 09:49:36PM +0200, Hans Breuer wrote: At 25.05.2012 17:22, John

shape default size

2012-06-01 Thread vwf
Hello, I made my own shape that works fine. The shape is '10' wide, but 10-what? When I put a shape on the canvas it is about 2.5 screen units, but the A4 seems about 15 wide. For normal use I would like to see the shape/image larger; now I always resize the shape to make them fit arrowheads

fram shape

2012-05-30 Thread vwf
Hello, I would like to help a friend to draw a special type of model. The model is build from hexagons with six connectors (labeled with six letters). The model with the hexagons looks like this: http://www.functionalresonance.com/FRAM_analysis_knowledge.html My first attempt to make such a

Re: fram shape

2012-05-30 Thread vwf
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 06:33:30PM +0200, vwf wrote: My first attempt to make such a shape failed. The hexagon is there, the shape has six connectors, but the letters are missing. At present the shape is a bit off and the circular connectors are not in yet, but I try to get the letters

type1 font problem

2006-05-22 Thread vwf
Hello, I would like to make a diagram in .eps format with my own Adobe type1-font. This works when I choose pango-fonts, but goes wrong with postscript latin-1 fonts. In the last case, the resulting image has courier fonts. The image will be embedded in a LaTeX document, and I want the text