Re: getting my uml classes to look like the screen shots

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Heather Buch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I read in the dia FAQ that I can't resize a dia class in UML
> mode. However, my class shapes look so awful. They are all about twice as
> wide as they should be, which makes it very awkward to fit my diagram on
> a page.
>
> I noticed that the screenshots at show uml classes that look good. How
> can I get my classes to look like the screenshots classes? Is it a matter
> of installing the right fonts? I haven't installed any fonts nor the urw
> aliases package. Would installing the urw package make a difference? Is
> there a font that produces better results than others? Currently my
> machine doesn't seem to have any fonts available other than "courier".

Using Courier for everything would indeed make it look bad.  Depending on
what system you're on, installing urw-aliases may or may not do much good.
Installing some standard bunch of fonts, like the GhostScript fonts, will
probably help.

-Lars

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