Re: pdf export / scaling - got lost

[Helmut Jarausch <jarausch igpm rwth-aachen de>]

On  3 Oct, Lars Clausen wrote:
> 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. 

Really?
Here, with Dia 0.96 (even SVN) I can say EXPORT, I select the
extension .pdf and leave the pull down menu "Determine file type:"
at the preset value "By extension".
And it does export to a .pdf file.

Helmut.

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Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany