Re: dia V0.97 issues

[Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>]

1) You want to toggle the object snap and see how that works.

2) Groups are nice for freezing a number of entities together for moving and copying, but you have to un-group to scale the parts inside the group., then group again when finished.

I would differ with Alejandro on Inkscape.  It is a very nice program for vector drawing and has some nice features not yet in Dia such as transparency, and gradients.  It is well worth learning about. 

But, Dia is better for diagramming.  Inkscape has no implementation of sheets of shapes.  Dia is simpler, and faster.  I would also recommend GIMP as another very useful open source program for image manipulation.

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Phil Fisher <Phil Fisher ipaccess com> wrote:

Hi
I am new to dia but very familiar with the use of such software in general.
However, I am have found the following _possible_ issues using 0.97 (and yes I am aware that 0.97.2 exists but for various reasons its immediate use is not possible here).  Can someone indicate what I might be doing wrong or whether there is a genuine issue?

1) when creating a line from the toolbox, once added onto diagram, I tried to edit it (by changing its size - length - and its position).  I selected the object and green and red handles appear one at each end.  When I try to pick up the handle and move it, first the handle jumps to the centre of the nearest object (a box here) and then second time, both handles coalesce to one and I cannot do anything.  How do I do normal things with this object (line)?

2) when I create a grouped object, it is not possible to re-size that object no matter what aspect ratio property it is.  Is this a restriction (since I can re-size a box)?

TIA

Environment details:  Windows XP Pro SP3, dia V0.97, 3GB RAM, Pentium 4 CPU 2.8Gz, installed from MSI package, running as a non-admin user under an AD domain login.

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