Re: Margins for A4 sheet

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 10.06.2014 12:35, Dumitru Ursu wrote:
> On 06/10/2014 12:29 PM, Dumitru Ursu wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm having some problems seeing/setting the margins for a A4 page; I've
> > set up from preferences to color the A4 area with a light blue, but the
> > whole canvas is painted;
> > When I export to PDF I get a document of 4 pages, when I really need just
> > one.
> > Also, how do I scale the diagrams?
> http://i.imgur.com/oRqmrI1.png
http://dia-installer.de/doc/en/quickstart-chapter.html#save-print-diagram

> For anyone else having troubles with this, the solution is to go to File >
> Page Setup, and fiddle around with the scale setting, until the red grid
> encompases your drawing.
> The red grid is the one who marks the page border.
Sorry that you apparently only grasped half of the related GUI. Instead of 
"fiddling around" you could have just selected "Fit to" and enter 1 in both 
fields.

> Also, as a note for developers: can't the infinite canvas be made optional?
Actually I have given some thoughts on an optional, more page oriented view 
but it goes more along the line of multi page programs like Keynote, 
Powerpoint etc.
And your problem at hand would not magically vanish with this, because 
still the user needs to decide how many objects should fit to one page.

> Having one A4 sheet by default is the way people are acustomed to work.
If you are not willing to adapt do Dia's approach, it's probably best to 
switch to a program which fits better to you and your needs. Or read and 
understand Michael's response:
  https://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2014-June/msg00028.html

> Or maybe some watermarking at each grid intersection: <This is page 1,
> 600x800px>
I dont understand why page size should be reflected in pixels. Almost all 
of Dia's shapes are fully scaleable without any information loss.

BTW: I don't think that further discussion of usability poll or something 
is leading anywhere near to motivating someone to write the code ;)

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