Re: pdf export / scaling - got lost

["Lars Clausen" <lars raeder dk>]

Helmut Jarausch said:
> Hi,
>
> I'm very new to Dia which looks very promising to me.
> Yet, I don't understand Scaling and exporting to PDF.
>
> Under Page Setup I have Scale:55.0 .
> When I export as an .eps file which is used
> within a TeX-file, I get a result which I expected.
> (Surprisingly the Scaling applies to exporting, as well).
> When I now use a (common) Perl script 'epstopdf'
> I can use resulting .pdf file within pdftex without problems.
>
> But when I export directly from Dia to a .pdf file, and
> using that under pdftex, the image is shift to the left
> (out of the page).
>
> What am I missing?

What you need to do is share your PDF exporter, as Dia doesn't come with
one. If you're making PDFs by printing to a PDF printer driver, you get
extra margins (which I would have expected to shift the image to the
right, but you never know).

-Lars