Re: Dia image to small -

[Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin wildblue net>]

Lars Clausen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 13:43 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>   
> > I have a system diagram created with dia almost two years ago.  I used 
> > the current dia for Fedora 7 [yum install dia] and after editing my 
> > diagram find that when converted to .png the result needs to be enlarged 
> > about 2.5 times, to something like 1024 x 720?  When I do that using 
> > gimp or gthumb the result is blurred.
> >
> > Curiously I can zoom into the original dia file and get perfect results 
> > for very large sizes.  I do not recall having this problem before.  What 
> > am I doing wrong?
> >     
>
> You're seeing the difference between vector graphics and bitmapped
> graphics.  Use Dia's png-libart exporter ("PNG (antialiased)" in the
> menu), not png-pixbuf.  It will let you set the size of the exported
> PNG.
>
> -Lars
>
>
> ______________________________________________
>   
That did it.

I had to use the menu item named "Portable Network Graphics (*.png)" 
rather than "Pixbuf[png] (*.png)."

Thank you for the help.

Bob Goodwin