Re: custom shapes and lines

[Steffen Macke <sdteffen gmail com>]

Hi Allan,

sorry for the late reply.

> When I include my newly defined shape, some how dia overrides the borders
> of each and every rectangle within the shape, making them follow the
> properties of the object itself. This adds an ugly black border even to
> places where no border should be.

The shape export often exports areas and their border twice (because
that's the way
Dia renders things). If you're able to read/edit the XML of your
shapes, you could try to
remove e.g. the border.

Other options I could think of:

* Use white line color for your shape
* Use line width 0 for your shape (or parts of it) - for the whole
shape this could be done using the UI,
for parts you would have to edit the shape

If this doesn't help - could you send me an example shape (and
possibly an image of how it should look)?

Regards,

Steffen