Re: dia 0.88-1 export problem?

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 20:33 20.01.02 -0000, Tariq Rashid wrote:
> dear all,
>
> i have been having some frustrating problems with dia going a bit unstable
> after a while... producing "junk" files...
It would be nice if you could provide information about the platform
your Dia is running on. First I concluded from your mailer that it is
probably win32, but than ...

> for example the file attched opens fine... 
... none of my local Dia versions does open the attached file without
tweakink. (It enters an endless loop in app/grid.c:grid_draw()).

I've tracked it down to the paper.scaling value being "0" in your
file which leads to some division by zero misbehaviour done on the
paper.width and paper.height ...

see app/load_save.c:diagram_data_load around line 360.

Further calculations are done with bogus values for either scaling
or width and height or even both, so the results are almost
unpredictable ...

> but copying and pasting out of it
> into a new dia window fails.
>
> more to the point, export to eps "appears" to work... but using imagemagicks
> convert :
>       convert a.eps b.png
> fails for the eps file created... something about no image delegate...
[...]

The workaround would be to manually correct the scaling value in
your file. But at least I have not yet found where it actually
got the invalid value in the first place so it will probably
break again ....

        Hans
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