Re: dia - how to define "text attribute"

[Ron Wilson <wilsonronl gmail com>]

No, Dia does not have a facility like this.

One time I experimented with a plug-in to do this. One major issue
that immediately presented itself was that Dia expects test to fit in
the same amount of area that the user typed it into. This meant that I
had to use a mono-spaced font and type in placeholder characters to
reserve space for some values.

For your described purpose, You could define a page template with all
the "fields" formatted correctly, then either create a plug-in to fill
it in for you, or save it and use an external utility to fill in a
copy and launch Dia when you want to create a new diagram.

You could even run a utility after you edit the diagram that could
insert sheet numbers and total sheet count into multiple instances of
"sheet info" object.

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:00 AM,  <dia-list-request gnome org> wrote:
> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:09:04 +0000
> From: Bigler St?phane <stephane bigler epfl ch>
>
> When designing one DIA diagram on many sheets, I am wondering if it is possible to define some "text 
> attribute".