Re: File corruption when using dia 0.94 on windows and linux

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

On 18.06.2005 14:59, Askadar wrote:
> Hi dia-list,
>
> first let me thank you for the work that you put into dia, it is
> really a quite useful tool.
>
> My team and I use dia for drawing various UML diagrams for a project
> at our university, and we have now found a serious bug. Some of us
> prefer to use Windows while I work on the final report on Linux (SuSE
> 9.0).
>
> Diagrams that have been edited on a Windows computer are corrupt once
> I try to use them on Linux.  I get various error messages trying to
> open the files, most of the time they still open but the shapes and
> lines are all messed up, but I even have witnessed segmentation
> faults.
Without either more specific bug description or a diagram which would
allow to reproduce the misbehaviour real diagnosis will be near
impossible.

> When I try to batch export these diagrams to eps with the command
>
> DIA=/usr/local/bin/dia     # this is version 0.94
> #DIA=/opt/gnome/bin/dia
>
> for i in `ls *.dia`; do
>         $DIA -e ${i}.eps  -t eps-pango $i
> done
>
> I get a _differerent_ kind of corruption, the layout is correct, but
> some of the strings are really really small, almost a line. 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153609

> When
> opened with dia, the font size is correct, but the shapes are
> corrupted as described. 
Where? Custom shapes?

> Export on Windows leads to a crash as already
> described in bugzilla.
Bug number?

> Now, the real problem is, our deadline is next tuesday and we have _very_
> many diagrams, we don't have the time to redraw all of them. Is there
> any trick that could help us? Would the CVS version help? 
Depends on the concrete bug(s). But I tend to assume that current cvs
shouldn't be much worse than 0.94 ;)

> Please, if
> there is anything we could do to rescue our diagrams, please let me
> know.
Again, having a diagram to reproduce the misbehaviour may be of
help. Otherwise there seems to be too much guessing involved.

        Hans

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