Re: font problem and overly-huge diagram

[Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille chepelov org>]

Le mar, jan 15, 2002, à 03:23:47 -0500, Art Werschulz a écrit:
> Hi.
>
> I have installed RedHat's dia-0.88.1-3 RPM on an Intel box running
> RedHat 7.2. 
>
> When I fire up dia, I get the following messages 
>
>   Warning no X Font for Courier-Oblique found,
>   using -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-* instead
>   Warning no X Font for Helvetica-Bold found,
>   using -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-* instead
>   Warning no X Font for Helvetica-BoldOblique found,
>   using -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-* instead

missing fonts. Install the relevant packages.

> Moreover, I get the message
>   GnomeUI-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL
> in the shell window from which I launched dia.

Please ignore this :-)

> Finally, the diagram appears to be Really Huge.  As an example,
> when I printed UML-demo.dia, it took up seven US-letter sized pages.

Use the print settings dialog to set the scale. The (dark) blueish lines (on
the main canvas) indicate page breaks (by default, light blue lines are on a
1cm * 1cm grid)

        -- Cyrille

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