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

Another option is to pick what you want to print, hit cttrl-X to cut it, create/activate a new layer, hit ctrl V to paste it back (don't move and it will be in the exact previous location), then turn off visibility of the original layer.

Now you have only the stuff you want to print showing.  

I put different pages of work on different layers all the time so I can select printing of individual pages.

You still need to scale the  page if you have problems with fitting.

I can imagine that if your work fit all within the pounds of one page, that some importer might scale it up for an efficient fit to a page; but if your work is bigger than the page you will get a segmented printout. I don't really mess around with very many output options.




On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com> wrote:
If I overshoot my page size, I just change the scale until it fits in the bounds I defined in Page Setup and the applied margins.


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Steve Litt <slitt troubleshooters com> wrote:
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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