Re: Tried Dia; Liked Dia; Can't Use Dia

[Steffen Macke <dia diagramr biz>]

Hi Jim,

On 09/29/2011 04:42 PM, Jim Anderson wrote:
> I'm looking for a basic drawing package for Linux that I can use 
> instead of Visio. I found Dia
> and it looked like what I am looking for. I started by trying to draw 
> a chart I need for a document.
> It was doing the job until I had to rotate text. I couldn't figure out 
> how to do that. I went to
> the documentation, but found nothing there about rotating text, or 
> more generally rotating
> objects.
On

http://dia-installer.de/doc/rotation.html.en

you'll find

* a Video that illustrates how to rotate text.
* a Python plugin that allows simple rotation of some objects
* The reference to Dia 0.98 that will bring additional rotation 
functionality.

Hope that helps.

Steffen