Does everyone make large objects, or is it just how I am using Dia?

[dunn <dnaughton dunnamin com>]

Howdy!

I am just learning Dia and was about to try my hand at making some 
shapes.  I notice the shapes I have used in Dia are very large, the 
borders are very thick at 0.1cm and the font is also large at 22.68pt 
(5/16").

As I make my shapes, I would want to make them so they fit 9 pt font 
size (1/8" tall), which is what I consider to be the perfect size (so 
studies say for us CAD users), and the borders would be 0.5 mm thick 
instead of 0.1cm.  This means I would make much smaller shapes.  Would 
anyone be able to use those shapes, or want to?

Are my shapes just very large because I have a default font setting 
somewhere that is setting my font so large?

I did see in the faq that people questioned why there fonts were too 
small, so I don't know if for some people everything comes out smaller.  
Could everything be large because their printing makes things smaller?

Thanks for the program :-).

   -- dunn