Page Size versus Screen Size [RE: UML support (was: Cross platform diagrams?)]

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Ribeiro, Glauber wrote:

> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 09:51:25 -0500
> From: "Ribeiro, Glauber" <Glauber Ribeiro experian com>
> Reply-To: dia-list gnome org
> To: "'dia-list gnome org'" <dia-list gnome org>
> Subject: RE: UML support (was: Cross platform diagrams?)
>
> The main problem for me is the size of the objects. They are enormous, often
> one class takes a whole page. It's possible to change the font to make them
> a little smaller, but the lines remain thick. The way i've been working
> around this is to make a diagram over several pages and scale it down to 50%
> when printing.

I think this is a problem with all of Dia in general, so be careful about
making specific changes to the UML shapes in an attempt to fix it.


I dont think I described it all that well but it seems to me that the size
on screen in Dia is way too small.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85314
"make 100% Zoom resemble size of actual page"

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/