Re: How to set up to create a diagram to print on one sheet?

[Chris Green <cl isbd net>]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 09:53:22AM -0400, Michael Ross wrote:
>    Chris,
>    I am not a developer, I am just telling you how it works.  You can get any
>    kind of printing action  with Dia.  You will have to find someone else to
>    argue about this with.  
>     "...want to create some diagrams which I will print on A4 paper."
>    Set up the page to A4, scale the diagram to fit in the page breaks for A4
>    and hit print..  It will all fit on A4 paper then.  You want multiple
>    pages - put each page inside the bounds of the page breaks and hit
>     print..
>    I will suggest one more thing.  If you want to get an open source program
>    (built entirely by volunteers) changed, but you want others to make the
>    change for you, you will find that being cranky will not get you very far.
>     You can draw more flies with sugar than with vinegar.
>    One more bit of practical advice.  You are a supplicant here.  You really
>    should treat your benefactors better.
>    I doubt I will feel encouraged enough by your attitude to discuss the use
>    of Dia with you further.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to be negative, just trying to work out how to
print diagrams directly from Dia onto A4 paper.

I must admit I have hit this problem before, Dia is a lovely program
and I use it quite a lot, but the difficulty of just creating a
diagram and *printing* it sometimes spoils it.

For creating diagrams that go onto web pages and similar it 'just
works' I agree with you.


-- 
Chris Green