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

[Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>]

You should probably share the files of representative shape for people to talk sensibly about the.

Shapes are created within a 1cm square area (or were when I last tried to make a shape).  If you made them larger, then that could be the explanation.

However the shape was sized, you should be able to scale it to whatever size you want.

If you double click on a tool, a properties dialog will arise where you can set the default properties - such as line weight.   I never worry about font size and just adjust font and page scale to get a readable output.  This is the normal workflow for Dia.  I am not sure what difficulties you will cause yourself by being rigid about font size.

Mike

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:44 PM, dunn <dnaughton dunnamin com> wrote:

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

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