Re: Margins for A4 sheet

[Chris Green <cl isbd net>]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 01:53:02AM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Chris Green!
>
> > I thinks that's right.  The inexperienced user (me, for example) tends
> > to dive in with a diagram that they want to draw before thinking about
> > details of how it will scale when they want to print it or put it into
> > a web page or whatever.
>
> > They complete a lovely diagram that looks good on the computer screen
> > and then find it's rather difficult to turn it into what they actually
> > want on paper (or web).
>
> That's completely different subject.
> The base format for Dia is SVG, which, by the very nature of it, is seamlessly
> scalable with bounds being only the resolution of the presentation medium.
But it's *not* "seamlessly scalable" because the individual components
(of *any* of the types of objects that come with it) don't scale as
well as the diagram as a whole.  They will scale plus/minus a factor
of two or so but beyond that they really don't work too well.  Thus
you *do* need to start with an appropriate sized 'sheet' if you want
to print your diagram or use it as other than a single huge diagram.

I really like dia but I think it would be a whole lot more 'likeable'
and generally applicable to casual users if it defaulted to something
more tangible.

-- 
Chris Green