problems with new shapes

[Rob Savoye <rob senecass com>]

I created a sheet with symbols commonly used for designing renewable 
energy systems for houses, like batteries, PV Panels, etc... It's been 
used for tons of off-grid houses around here. :-) Today I was trying to 
add a few new symbols to my sheet only to discover it doesn't seem to 
work anymore. To create a new shape, I draw save as a .dia, then export 
as a .shape. Then I go in and add the "New" shape file. When I do this, 
the png is zero bytes, and the shape file gets truncated to zero, so 
nothing gets imported. I tried this on 4 different GNU/Linux distros 
(all running 96.1), plus grabbed svn, and tried a few different versions 
to find nothing seems to work anymore. I always wind up with truncated 
.png and .shape files. I'd love to find out I'm doing something wrong so 
I can finish this latest project.

Anyway, here's the current collection which works just fine, with rising 
gas prices it might be nice to add.
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuae/gnuae-dia.tgz

        - rob -