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Hi Dia Developers, My name is Guido and I work for a short line railroad in
Fort Worth, Texas, USA. I recently found Dia because I was in search of
diagramming software for use in my engineering role. I began using Dia
and find it to be extraordinarily user-friendly with a clean interface and
clean operation. I would, however, like to know if Dia has a rotate
command. And if not I would like to know if Dia would consider developing
a rotate command. Specifically I’d like to be able to rotate raster
images as well as text elements. Let me briefly explain why. My project involves making a schematic representation of our
railroad tracks. The process starts with someone hand-sketching an area
of the railroad. I can scan these into .tif or another graphics file
format. Then I used the Dia image tool to bring them into a Dia sketch.
I can then draw “on top” of the image to match the
hand-sketch. I’d further like to ROTATE the image and add text and
ROTATE the text to orient to the drawing elements be they curve or line. See attached. This shows a scanned-in hand sketch and
the Dia drawing elements I’ve created. You can see where it would
be useful to add text to lines and curves. It would also have been useful
to rotate the image after importing it. I’d love to hear your input on these interests of
mine. I GREATLY appreciate your efforts on this project and if I
implement Dia for this project I will do my best to support the project monetarily
or otherwise. Sincerely, ~ guido Daniel
"Guido" Guido Fort Worth & Western RR mobile: (682) 429 - 2298 |
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DIA test sketch2.dia
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