Re: Page Breaks - what are they for?

[Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>]

You can ignore the 0:0 location.  Draw your diagrams anywhere on the desktop and the page breaks will show you where the pages will break - taking into account the margins.  If the margins are 25mm then you will have your page size minus 50mm (left and right, top and bottom).  It wouldn't make much sense to show all the white space between the margins of adjacent pages.

If you want all your Dia to be on one page then just work within the page breaks.  

It won't matter if a particular page has 0:0 at a corner or not.  

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Chris G <cl isbd net> wrote:

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 02:00:26PM +0100, Maciej Jaros wrote:
> Chris G (2010-12-29 13:08):
> >I'm confused (no change there then!) about what the 'Page Break'
> >markings do for me.
> >
> >It took me a while to realise that the solid blue lines *were* the Page
> >Breaks and that I could remove them using the Preferences settings.
> >That's good as I find them distracting because they sit very close
> >to some of the major grid lines on my system.
> >
> >However I also don't understand what they're for, they don't appear to
> >indicate actual paper size blocks on the diagram, on my system they seem
> >to be just over 15cm wide (hence the blue line is very close to the 15cm
> >grid line) and 24cm high.  The default paper size on my system is A4 so
> >those dimensions are nothing like the paper size.
>
> Page Break lines indicate where will the page end if you will print
> your diagram. You can change settings in Page Setup.
>

Yes, but that's the issue/problem.  In Page Setup it says I'm using A4
paper which is 21cm x 29.7cm but the page breaks are marked on my
diagram at 15cm x 24cm.  The margins aren't *that* wide!  :-)

> >Final question - is it possible to reset the top left corner of a
> >diagram to 0:0 on the rulers?
> It's not possible to align elements relative to pages in Dia. If you
> really want to you can make a group of elements to be aligned, place
> another element in 0:0 and then select the element and the group and
> align to left and to top... But you'll probably just want to select
> everything and move it.
>
> Or you can use Page Setup and select "Fit to", but it will not move
> your elements it will move page breaks (meaning your diagram, when
> printed, should start from upper left corner of the page).
>

OK, thanks, it wasn't a big problem anyway.

I just happened to move something off the the left (so the top left of
the diagram became (say) -25:0 and wanted a way to get it back to 0:0
when I brought the element back.  I've found that if I exit and restart
dia then it does get back to 0:0.

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