Re: pdf export / scaling - got lost

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

On 02.10.2007 16:54, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On  3 Oct, Lars Clausen wrote:
> > Helmut Jarausch said:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm very new to Dia which looks very promising to me.
> > > Yet, I don't understand Scaling and exporting to PDF.
> > >
> > > Under Page Setup I have Scale:55.0 .
> > > When I export as an .eps file which is used
> > > within a TeX-file, I get a result which I expected.
> > > (Surprisingly the Scaling applies to exporting, as well).
> > > When I now use a (common) Perl script 'epstopdf'
> > > I can use resulting .pdf file within pdftex without problems.
> > >
> > > But when I export directly from Dia to a .pdf file, and
> > > using that under pdftex, the image is shift to the left
> > > (out of the page).
> > >
> > > What am I missing?
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353433

> > What you need to do is share your PDF exporter, as Dia doesn't come with
> > one. 
>
> Really?
> Here, with Dia 0.96 (even SVN) I can say EXPORT, I select the
Lars: you should finally start building dia --with-cairo ...

> extension .pdf and leave the pull down menu "Determine file type:"
> at the preset value "By extension".
> And it does export to a .pdf file.
... and of course the cairo version needs to be new enough to have PDF.

        Hans

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