Re: Margins for A4 sheet

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon freemail ru>]

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.

Not to argue, but to clean up any possible misunderstanding: The fact some
shapes are scaling better, than other only tell us about quality of certain
shapes, not about quality of the program or application design concept 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.

If you do want to print it, you SHOULD start designing your diagram from
setting up a page properties and enabling paging grid visibility.

> 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.

As a casual user, I don't need any printing abilities of Dia. I draw wormhole
maps and simple illustrations intended to be shown as web images.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon freemail ru) 11.06.2014, <17:51>

Sorry for my terrible english...