Re: Some text not printing correctly, letters overprint

[Chris Green <cl isbd net>]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 03:45:19PM -0700, Octavio Alvarez wrote:
> On 03/29/2014 04:38 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> > OK, thanks for that, do you know if the 0.97.3 code will compile
> > fairly painlessly on [x]ubuntu 13.10?  I'm happy to pull in some
> > dependencies but I don't want dozens of them.
>
> "apt-get build-dep dia" should install all dependencies for 0.97.2 (the
> known-to-Ubuntu version), but 0.97.3 has very similar dependencies, if
> not exactly the same. This should get your compilation environment fully
> set up.
>
> > How/where can I get a reasonably stable 0.97.3 beta (or pre-beta)? If
> > I do:-
> >     git clone git://git.gnome.org/dia
> >
> > will I get something OK[ish]?
>
> No; you would get the main development branch (with more improvements
> and bugs, I suppose). For 0.97.3 you should use the dia-0-97 branch:
>
> git checkout origin/dia-0-97
>
> ... or you don't intend to develop or browse the git repo, you can also
> just download the current snapshot for the dia-0-97 branch from here:
>
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/snapshot/dia-dia-0-97.tar.gz
Thank you, I guessed that there must be some slightly less "on the
cusp of development" versions out there.

-- 
Chris Green