Re: auto-scaling text dia .94

[Lars Ræder <larsrc gmail com>]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:47:54 +0200, Tomas Mezger <tomz mytum de> wrote:
> Lars Ræder wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:53:07 +0200, Tomas Mezger <tomz mytum de> wrote:
> >
> > > i'm usig dia .94 under kde and FC2.
> > >
> > > i love dia, it's a very good program and i'm glad that's coming forward! :-)
> > > as i'm not a programmer (only latex :-)! ) i can't check out the sources
> > > and so on...
> > >
> > > i'm having a big problem with text in dia, because dia resizes the text
> > > as he whants... sometimes i only have a very tiny text and if i add a
> > > space on the text, it returns to the normal size. if i remove the space,
> > > it is tiny again.
> > >
> > > later, i had to remove the space to see the text in the original size,
> > > because with the space it was tiny again...  this was only an example,
> > > of how it plays sometime.
> > >
> > > i actually don't care of how big the text is, because i export it to
> > > *.tex and i have to modify all the lines from the exported files from
> > > {\scalebox{1 -1}{Sonnenenergie}}
> > > to
> > > {\scalebox{2.5 -2.5}{Sonnenenergie}}
> > >
> > > but i have to know how bit it is in order to see if it is centred and so
> > > on....
> >
> > Isn't it enough to set the text to be centered?  Or does the .tex
> > export not support that?
> >
> >
> >
> > > is this a problem other people also have? or just using kde? is it going
> > > to be fixed? :-)
> >
> > This is a known problem that we're trying to get a handle on, but it's
> > slippery.  If you can send me the diagram this happens with, I'll see
> > if I can reproduce it and debug it.  I've seen it myself, but didn't
> > have time to debug then.  Don't really have time now, either, but I
> > can try to make some time.
> hi,
>
> here is the file where this happens... actually it happens with all
> files i recently did. the problem of the resizing happens while i send
> the file to my printer... he prints with resized fonts and it's ugly.

Only when sending to printer... odd.  But it uses the same font
rendering code for that, though with higher DPI.

> is there any posibility to set the font econding? if i export this file
> to tex, i have to change the ü (.. + u) because it doesnt export as i
> expected.

That's a job for the TeX export plugin.  Dia and GTK all use UTF8, but
it should be a simple fix to convert it to the current locale in TeX
output.

-Lars