Re: How to change page size to selection size

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 20.02.2013 23:31, Steve Litt 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.
This sounds as if some pre-exisitng functionality got removed from Dia 0.97 
which existed before. I am not aware of such a removal, especially not 
related to one of the three SVG exporters.
But maybe you were using one and now by accident are using a different 
exporter? (If you export with 'Determine file type: By extension' previous 
versions had some randomness about which exporter got selected. With 0.97.x 
you can influence this by Preferences/Favorites)

> 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?
>
Where has it been before? Again I'm not aware of Dia having lost some facility.

> Is there some way to get my dia to resize page to selection?
Only one SVG exporter (cairo-svg) is potentially using the page settings.
There is no resize page to selection, there also is no export selection 
only. Usually the visible objects are rendered by exporters.

> I'm sure I'm not the only one who misses this feature. How
> are the rest of you getting along without it?
Use the exporter which best fits my needs, if there is something I'm 
desperately missing I'm implementing 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.
Yeah, that's another way. If I want to do something which another program 
can do better than Dia, than I'm using that other program, too.

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