Re: stymied

[James McDonald <james jamesmcdonald id au>]

roger stein wrote:
> Hi folks:
>     After a little struggle (never having used any diagram-creating 
> software before) I figured out how to manipulate the lines, and 
> thought, "Okay, everything should proceed smoothly from here."  The 
> fact that I'm writing indicates otherwise.  My purpose in creating the 
> diagram was to include it in a document; I use Jarte as my 
> word-processor.  But despite trying everything, I couldn't transport 
> my completed diagram to Jarte.  I have Windows XP, and I believe if I 
> could get the dia file into My Pictures then it would be fine.  But 
> after exploring every possibility that I could think of, I couldn't 
> get it into My Pictures.  Desperate, I even printed it out, scanned it 
> into my computer, got it as an Adobe file, copied the Adobe and pasted 
> it into a new Jarte document--yes, it appeared there, but it was 
> unacceptable because the small diagram was surrounded by a lot of 
> empty space with an invisible pit bull with ferocious territorial 
> instincts guarding it..  I simply couldn't get inside those borders.  
> In any case, this would have been an obviously unsatisfactory 
>  solution even if I had gotten it to work.  I looked through your 
> manual but didn't see anything clearly applicable.  I'd be deliriously 
> happy and grateful for any help you can provide. 
>  
>                                                                                                                                       
> Cordially,
>  
With your dia diagram open in dia Click file --> Export. Save the 
diagram as a jpeg and then open it and copy and paste it into your document.