Re: DIA Question

[Evan William Kilbourne <ekilbour calpoly edu>]

Hi,
I'd like them all to be scaled down to fit into one page grid. The page grids are outlined in the solid blue, 
and I don't know how to quickly and efficiently scale every box, text, and line down by the same amount in 
order to fit it into the area. Rearranging the blocks does not necessarily keep the connections. There are 
lines connected to other lines that haven't "snapped" (excuse my lack of technical language, I'm no computer 
whiz) to the X connection points. This was done for aesthetic purposes. While I appreciate your help, or 
rather your prompt for further clarification, please do understand I'm neither a programmer, coder, nor 
computer whiz.

Evan W. Kilbourne
Business Administration-Accounting 
Orfalea College of Business
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
949-307-8938
evankilbourne gmail com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrey Repin" <anrdaemon freemail ru>
To: "Evan William Kilbourne" <dia-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2011 6:13:06 AM
Subject: Re: DIA Question

Greetings, Evan William Kilbourne!

> I recently started using the DIA freeware to makes a flowchart for the
> organization that I work for. My question is, is there an easy way to fit
> all the boxes onto one printable area?

You know, programs don't (generally?) possess a gift of sentience.
They can't know, what exactly you mean by "fit all boxes onto area".
Do you want them scaled down, or just moved? And that's only one of many
possible questions.

> I have already made the flowchart, and I don't necessarily want to go
> through again and redo the whole thing.

You know you can rearrange blocks and they will keep connections? >.<

> Please let me know if this is possible.

It really depends on the exact result you want to achieve, but one thing might
help you: Dia could show you the page grid. All objects that fit inside one
page cell, will be printed on one page.
(Honestly, page grid is displayed by default, how did you missed it?)

> Also please let me know if there is a way to standardize the sizes of the
> boxes and text.

Double-click the shape on palette.


--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon freemail ru) 03.11.2011, <17:04>

Sorry for my terrible english...

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