Re: auto-scaling text dia .94

[Tomas Mezger <tomz mytum de>]

Lars Ræder wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:47:54 +0200, Tomas Mezger <tomz mytum de> wrote:
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> > Lars Ræder wrote:
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> > > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:53:07 +0200, Tomas Mezger <tomz mytum de> wrote:
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> > >      
> > >
> > > > 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.
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> Only when sending to printer... odd.  But it uses the same font
> rendering code for that, though with higher DPI.
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oh, sorry, the problem is on the screen AND while sending to the 
printer...if i export to *.tex all the text parts have the same 
properties (size), even if i whant to have some text biger thant the other.


thankx,

tom