On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 03:49 -0300, Ricardo LarraÃaga wrote:
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?.
I take it you want the start-up screen to look something like the attached image. I'm sure that can be done:) Seriously, there are many things that still need to be fixed in Dia, and as Marcel notes, the main developers are hit by full-time jobs and can't devote much time to development anymore. The best thing you can do in this case is go to live.gnome.org and improve the documentation -- there are several pointers to how to make shapes, but they can all do with improvement and with getting integrated in the live.gnome.org site. And *you can do this* -- anyone can make a live.gnome.org account and start improving the documentation. That's how open source works -- you find an itch and scratch it as best you can. FYI, there's a patch coming in that allows the size to actually be used, so this particular problem will be solved. The problem of not having enough time to develop Dia remains, though:( -Lars
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