Re: Ugly print result on Windows

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

On 01.08.2007 15:12, Lars Ruoff wrote:
[...]
> Maybe it's only a Windows issue? 
Yes.
> Maybe a GTK issue?
No. Gtk printing support is much more recent than Dia's win32 printing
capability.
> What i wonder is why this bug stays open for a such long period of time?
Because no one cared enough to completly fix it. And it is not that simple,
see eg.:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350726
but also:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=396504
and:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158549

> The whole program is rather useless when you cannot print out diagrams
> corretly.
> Don't get me wrong, but this limitation really sucks!
> It's the only thing that keeps me off from using Dia more seriously.
> Please put the fixing of this thing to higher priority.
You can do that yourself by providing a working patch. But almost cetainly
not by complaining louder. You know: it is all open source.

The code in question is in
http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/dia/trunk/plug-ins/wmf/wmf.cpp?revision=3642&view=markup

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