Re: Keeping defaults for next time

[Lars Ræder <larsrc gmail com>]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 22:20:26 +0100, Chris Green <chris areti co uk> wrote:
> Is there any way to save things like line width and text size defaults
> for the next time one runs dia?
>
> I mean those things that appear when you double-click on an object.
> When set on the tools (as opposed to objects) they set the defaults
> for 'this' run of dia but I'd like to be able to save them so I get
> the same defaults the next time I run dia.

What version of Dia are you using?  Saving defaults for objects have
been there for several versions, but only 0.94 has saved line width,
color etc. settings.

> Also the fonts seem to print very bold on my system, I have a
> smattering of fonts in addition to the serif, sans, etc. such as
> Bitstream ones, Luxi ones and a couple of others but they all print
> out very bold, even in non-bold.  Especially in small font sizes this
> makes them somewhat illegible.  Is there any way to reduce the
> boldness of the fonts and/or can anyone recommend a less bold one?

We print them the way we get them from Pango (though there's an
antialiasing issue for non-selected objects sometimes).

-Lars