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I generally use Dia to produce figures for inclusion in engineering documents, exporting as .emf which can be dropped right into a Word doc. In this case the size and page divisions are not critical since Word will scale the figure to fit; here the advantage of vector vs. raster graphics is definitely apparent. On occasion I have needed to include a mathematical function in a diagram; I have done this by writing a Python script to generate SVG move/draw commands in a file to be imported to Dia. In this case scaling does become a problem since it is difficult to know how to scale the SVG so as to correspond with a practical magnification setting in Dia. Now that I think of it, one other feature in Dia that I would find useful is the ability to mirror-reflect or rotate a selection of elements by multiples of 90 degrees. - dhf --- Original message --- |