Re: feature request: horizontal/vertical lines

[Lars Ræder Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 14:12 +0100, Casper Hillerup Lyhne wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have been using Dia quite a bit to draw UML diagrams and such. There 
> is a problem though. When i am done connecting all the objects with 
> lines i always find myself zooming to ridiculous levels to align the 
> objects so that the lines between them is either horizontal or vertical. 
> This can't be solved through snap to grid since many objects has odd 
> sizes that don't line up.
>
> Because of this my feature request is this:
> Please make a line that can only be vertical og horizontal.
>
> That way i can snap the objects on to the (now perfectly vertical og 
> horizontal) lines, and then i don't have to go through the aligning 
> nightmare which is never perfect anyway.

It's fairly deep in Dia's model that lines snap to objects and not vice
versa. But can't you use the Objects->Align menu to align the objects?

-Lars