Re: Scaling, printing, etc. in Dia

[Chris Green <chris areti co uk>]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 11:40:59PM +0200, Lars Clausen wrote:
> > Yes, OK.  I think what I'm after is a way to see most of an A4 sheet
> > (I have a 19" monitor running at 1600x1200) with a (say) 1mm grid for
> > positioning.  At present the grid seems rather too coarse for
> > positioning boxes exactly as one wants on an A4 sheet.
>
> Try with 100% scale in page setup going to 250% zoom.  That should also
> change the grid to 1mm.  On my 1280x1024 it takes up a little more than
> fits on the screen.
That's got me nearly there!

I have set 100% scale and 250% zoom, that gives me a nice view of an
A4 sheet on my screen, even better in landscape mode which is fine for
what I'm trying to do.

However it leaves me with two issues:-

    The rulers are entirely arbitrary, my A4 sheets is 24 x 15 whereas
    a real A4 sheet of paper is 29.7 x 20.5.

    The grid is too coarse, it has only 24 divisions across the long
    dimension of my A4 sheet and snap to grid snaps to this (larger
    than 1cm) grid.

If I zoom to the 283% default I get a much finer grid drawn but it
doesn't affect the scaling (still 24 divisions for the length of my
A4) and, mor importantly it doesn't affect 'snap to grid' so I still
get larger than 1cm jumps.

If the 283% zoom had snap to grid working as one expects to the
visible grid it would work pretty well as I can see the whole of an A4
sheet on my screen.  Getting the rulers to be real cm would be even
better but that's just a nicety.

-- 
Chris Green (chris areti co uk)

    "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."