Re: Ugly print result on Windows

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 15:12 +0200, Lars Ruoff wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> I have given Dia/Win32 a try several times now since a couple of years with
> several versions.
> I'm currently using the latest 0.96.1-7 on Windows XP SP2.
> The problem with Dia in all this verisons is: When i print out diagrams, the
> result is ugly and very different from the on-screen layout. Text flows over
> box boundaries, lines don't start at exact boundaries as they were
> positioned in the diagam etc.
> I suppose this is a known issue (i wasn't in the mood to register on
> Bugzilla to verify that).
> Maybe it's only a Windows issue? Maybe a GTK issue?
> What i wonder is why this bug stays open for a such long period of time?
> The whole program is rather useless when you cannot print out diagrams
> corretly.
> Don't get me wrong, but this limitation really sucks!
> It's the only thing that keeps me off from using Dia more seriously.
> Please put the fixing of this thing to higher priority.

Version 0.96 was the first one to implement a proper way to determine
the width of the text strings and so allow a uniform text width across
screen, printing and export.  However, it does not seem to have seen as
much testing under Windows as it should have (I don't have a Windows box
myself, and don't know what may be going wrong).

-Lars