Re: Dia and images

[Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>]

I think you will just have to keep the image files together with the Dia file.  If you develop the discipline of making a project folder; or, even more granular, individual Dia folders, there is no problem.

I am not unsympathetic, I would like to have images embedded, too.  But it is an old complaint of may different programs.  I do CAD with Solidworks and many part files congregate into an assembly.  I just have to keep them together or it does not work.  I will note that Solidworks has a Journal function that is an MS Word doc where I can place all manner of embedded information.  

Mike

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Jørgen Johanson <Jorgen Johanson safetel no> wrote:

Hi,

 

I have question regarding Dia and images. I have noticed that images (inserted on a diagram with Basic Objects: Image) are not embedded in the Dia-file. Checking the XML code generated by Dia I can see that Dia only refers to images file via absolute or relative file paths.

 

This leads to problems in some situations. The image files are not always reachable and Dia just shows a big red cross instead of the images. I have for instance uploaded Dia-files to my Wiki (which have Dia-support added). In general this works excellent as the Wiki automatically renders PNG-files from the diagram file that are presented in the (web) pages. However, when uploading Dia diagrams with images, the images does not show up (since they are not reachable from the Dia making the PNG-files).

 

Any way around this (can images be embedded in the Dia-file for instance)?

 

Regards

Jørgen Johanson

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