Re: stymied

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Jun 4, 2008, at 6:30 AM, James McDonald wrote:

> 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.

For nicer results, export as PNG if Jarte supports it. For even nicer  
support, you can export as WMF, though the size of WMFs have been  
known to be a little off in Word - nothing that couldn't be adjusted  
away, but no knowing what Jarte can do about it.

-Lars