Re: Dia shape sizes

[Ricardo Larrañaga <rrl adinet com uy>]

Marcel Toele wrote:
> Hi Ricardo,
>
> I have two pending patches, one of which will solve this problem.
>
> In short, it allows you to define the initial (drag 'n drop-size) of a 
> shape in de .shape file.
> If you only specify either the height or width, it will honor the 
> aspect ratio of the shape you authored and derive the other
> dimension based on the specified dimension (so if you specify only the 
> width, it will calculate the height while keeping
> the aspect ratio).
>
> However, I think Lars is very busy, because he hasn't been able to 
> verify/validate my patches and include these in the SVN trunk.
>
> cheers,
>
> Marcel
>
> 2008/2/8, Ricardo Larrañaga <rrl adinet com uy 
> <mailto:rrl adinet com uy>>:
>
>     Hello, my name is Ricardo and i am new using dia. I have a
>     question and
>     hope someone out there can help out.
>     I have created many shapes and a sheet to save them for my diagrams.
>     When i created the shapes y was very careful with the size of each
>     chape, because they represent real things (connectors), and i
>     wanted to
>     be able to create a 1:1 scale diagram. The problem is that when i
>     drag a
>     shape created by me from my library sheet into a new diagram, i
>     get the
>     shape with another size that isnt the one i created it with. Can
>     someone
>     help me find out how can i drag a shape created by me from the
>     sheet and
>     get the real size of the shape in the new diagram. Does it have
>     something to do with diagram scales?.
>     Thanks
>     Ricardo
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Ok Marcel, thank you very much for the help
Ricardo