Re: Dia and images

[Edheldil <dia001 eowyn cz>]

On 09/28/2011 10:22 AM, Michael Ross wrote:
> I think you will just have to keep the image files together with the
> Dia file.  If you develop the discipline of making a project folder;
> or, even more granular, individual Dia folders, there is no problem.
>
> I am not unsympathetic, I would like to have images embedded, too.
>  But it is an old complaint of may different programs.  I do CAD with
> Solidworks and many part files congregate into an assembly.  I just
> have to keep them together or it does not work.  I will note that
> Solidworks has a Journal function that is an MS Word doc where I can
> place all manner of embedded information. 

Similar problem exists with shapes - embedding shape files within a dia
file would prevent that problem with missing shape files somebody has
raised here recently.

Perhaps it's time to finally enhance the *.dia format. Instead of a
(gzipped) xml file, make it an archive as is the case of OpenOffice files.

For example:

/
    dia.xml
    shapes/
        shape1.png
        shape1.xml
        ....
    images/
        image1.png
        ....
    sounds/
        ....

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Edheldil