Re: Adding objects to Dia

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 17:56 +0100, Nick Moore wrote:
> Hey Leon,
> 
> To add elements to Dia, you do make them with SVG. You also need a PNG
> representation, which is used as the icon in the menu.
> 
> To create a set of shapes, you'd want to go into Dia, (in the main
> window of Dia) File/Sheets and Objects and play around with that. It
> can create a sheet file for you (New, then select the sheet option,
> which will allow you to create a new "set" of shapes). Then you import
> your shape files. 
> 
> You might also want to look at some examples (in the install directory
> for Dia, the default shapes are stored in the (shock horror) shape
> directory).

A couple things to look for:

Make sure to define a mainpoint for all shapes where it makes sense
(since 0.95).
Make a .sheet.in file so that it is easily translatable.
Don't just trust automatic generating of PNG and connection points from
exporting as shape, but it's a good start.

-Lars