Re: Scaling, printing, etc. in Dia

[Chris Green <chris areti co uk>]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 07:45:30PM +0200, Lars Clausen wrote:
> >     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.
>
> That's due to margins.  If you change the margins in page setup, the
> rulers will go to normal A4 paper.  The centimeters are real
> centimeters.
Ah, OK, I hadn't realised that!

> >     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.
>
> You can set the grid explicitly in the Diagram Properties dialog, just
> turn off dynamic grid and set the grid to 0.1x0.1.
>
> > 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.
>
> The latter would be a problem with the dynamic grid code.  Doesn't seem
> to adjust along with the shown grid.
So if I turn dynamic grid off all should be well?  Anyway I'll try it
when I get home this evening (at work now).

Thanks for all the helpful replies.

-- 
Chris Green (chris areti co uk)

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