Re: How to change page size to selection size <SOLVED WITH WORKAROUND>

[Steve Litt <slitt troubleshooters com>]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:31:43 -0500
Steve Litt <slitt troubleshooters com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> In previous dia versions, within dia I've been able to set the page
> size of a drawing to a selection of all objects on the drawing. Then,
> a simple export to svg would give the exact sized graphic in svg form,
> ready to put on a website. The new dia version I just installed has no
> random resizing capability, restricting the user to a predefined list
> of page sizes.


Hi all,

As you know, previous Dia versions had a "size to selection" button for
page size, but current versinos got rid of that feature. So here's how
I worked around it...

What I do is draw my diagram, making certain the upper left corner of
my drawing is very near 0,0. Then I find a canned shape (typically
either Letter landscape or Letter portrait that approximately the same
size as the drawing, as evidenced by the heavier grid lines at 8.5
and 11 or whatever. I set the margins very small, like 0.1cm, and then
I adjust the scaling factor so the drawing completely fits inside the
paper size. This produces a ddrawing that's correctly sized.

SteveT


> After installing Ubuntu 12.10, I installed dia from Ubuntu's package
> manager:
>
> ===================
> slitt mydesk:~$ dia -v
> Dia version 0.97.2, compiled 19:25:35 Apr 30 2012
> slitt mydesk:~$ 
> ===================
>
> Is the resize page to selection somewhere in the menu system other
> than File->Page_setup? Is there some way to get my dia to resize page
> to selection? I'm sure I'm not the only one who misses this feature.
> How are the rest of you getting along without it?
>
> Without this feature I'd need to re-edit my dia diagram with Inkscape,
> which is an inconvenience I'd really like to forego.
>
> Thanks
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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