Re: 2 Ques. - object placement; printing

[Ed Wright <edo wright gmail com>]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the reply.

Actually, I've been copy/pasting the page I want to print into an empty 
dia file and printing that.... works as a stop gap measure but bothersome.

I do use Inkscape and Gimp for other things. And I don't use Windows :)

Ed

On 2008/08/24 20:34, Michael Ross wrote:
> I have less heartache if I just make screen dumps and print using an image
> management program.  I have a very old demo of one called LViewPro that I
> like a lot for down and dirty image manipulation and printing.
>
> However, you need to use a color for the page breaks that contrasts with
> your background color.  Then the grid you see represents the area inside the
> margins.  No WYSIWYG.  If you go over the lines you are causing another
> sheet to be used.   I have no idea if you can limit printing to only one of
> several sheets, which is what you asked for.
>
> Open source image programs I like are Inkscape and Gimp.  Both are superb.
> Printing can be a little uncertain with open source and Windows OS machines
> in my experience, hence the screen dump habit.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Ed Wright <edo wright gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > The more I work with dia the more I like it.
> >
> > But I have two questions:
> >
> > 1) Precise object placement with the mouse is very difficult. Is there any
> > way to "nudge" objects a pixel at a time via the keyboard?
> >
> > 2) Sometimes I would like to print only one page of a multi-page diagram.
> > Is there any way to do this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ed
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