Re: Thanks for everything!

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 30.01.2014 19:07, Mark Buteyn wrote:
> I've enjoyed getting to know dia.  I'm using it for network documentation
> and having fun.
:-)

> I use a lot of HP Procurve networking equipment and was hoping to be able
> to convert the HP provided visio templates to Dia and haven't been
> successful so I started to roll my own.
Was there a common exchange format you tried?

> My questions:
> 1:  When creating shapes it seems to crash if there is text in the shape.
> I created a new dia file with just a text attribute and exported it to a
> shape and it worked, the shape would import but the text didn't appear.  Am
> I doing something wrong or does text not work well with the SVG subset that
> the .shape file uses?
Might be https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668587 if you are using 
Dia 0.97.2

> 2:  When creating a diagram of a switch, I used Polygon to create the
> network jack so there are 16 connection points per jack. Likewise there are
> 8 connection points for circles and squares. Is there a way to define /
> remove connection points before exporting to a shape or is that something
> that can only be done by exporting to a .shape file and removing the
> unnecessary connection points.
With the current development version you could use Convert to Path on you 
Polygon to get rid of all it's connection points. I do not know a way to 
get rid of connection points with a released Dia version.

> Thanks again for those who contribute.  If I can get my Procurve shapes to
> my satisfaction I'll share those back
Thanks,
        Hans

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