RE: Newbie: Lost my fit-to-page lines??

["Young, Robert" <Robert Young dsto defence gov au>]

> Fred Welland [mailto:fwelland intelixinc com] wrote:

> Still no luck trying your suggestions.  I didn't find 
> anything too out of the ordinary in the xml file ('shape' was 
> what I supposed to save it as, correct).  I vaquely recall 
> that there was an uncompress option somewhere, but I couldn't 
> find that. 

If you Export as a .dia file (e.g. fileA.dia) you will get an uncompressed
XML version of the file. (When you do a Save you get a compressed version of
the file). The shape file is a different creature - use for creating your
own shapes (won't help your current problem).

>   At this point since diagrams A and B are essentially the 
> same except for some labels - I may resort to cping B to A 
> and change the lables a bit.  Recall B seems OK....It is 
> worth noting that is what I did (except the other   way 
> around) to get into this problem.

Yes, you can copy and paste between two diagrams (providing you don't load
two instances of Dia). If you have problems with copying and pasting and can
reproduce them let us know!

Best of luck!

Rob.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Young, Robert
> Sent: Wed 10/17/2001 10:24 PM
> To:   'dia-list gnome org'
> Cc:   
> Subject:      RE: Newbie:  Lost my fit-to-page lines??  
> > Fred Welland [mailto:fwelland intelixinc com] wrote
>  
> > So I took your automake stuff and nuked the symlinks with the 
> > revs you sent and retried the build.  Which worked much 
> > better but did eventally error out with something like the 
> > following...((actually this stuff is below)
>
> Woops, forgot about the translations problem - actually, this 
> is a really
> annoying one because I don't know how to fix it - I just type
> touch po/zh_TW.gmo
> to get past it. Does anyone else know how to fix this properly??
> Maybe it should be submitted as a bug :-)
>
> > living on the edge I gave app/run_dia.sh a go and dia fired 
> > up.  And loaded one of diagrams (call it 'A') and that 
> > looked/worked/printed fine.  The other diagram ('B') had the 
> > same problems as with 88.1.  For kicks I loaded A back in 
> > 88.1 and that appears/works/prints fine ; but B misbehaves in 
> > both 88.1 and 89.0.  
> >
> > I am thinking something is strange with the dia file.   
> > Haven't spelunked in the XML yet...but may try that (I kinda 
> > want the B diagram enuff to try this).  I will note that the 
> > 'virtual canvas' with diagram B looks funny - by this I mean, 
> > the rulers seem to have negative coordinates and the whole 
> > canvas is HURGE.  The A diagram still has negative ruler 
> > coordinates but the canvas seems smaller. 
>
> With regard to the diagram B, I have found some diagrams 
> stuffed beyond what
> dia can fix. Did you try loading it into 0.89, saving it and 
> then reloading
> it?? If this doesn't work, export it as a .dia file and then 
> troll through
> the source (with your favourite editor) searching for large 
> numbers (+ and
> -), then manually delete the objects either in the xml (if you like a
> challenge) or in dia if you can work out which ones they are. 
> Once I hand
> patched the coords for a couple of objects to get it to load 
> - a lot of
> work, but my wife was happy.
>
> > Any further help/hints?  BTW: with the compile 89.0 rev, I 
> > don't have any cools stuff like the network objects etc on my 
> > tool bar palete...
>
> As for missing the network objects etc, did you rm the
> sheets/build-sheets.stamp file then do a make?? (the 'RE: 
> Crash when opening
> file' reference).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Rob.
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