Re: svg:transform rotate

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon freemail ru>]

Greetings, Hans Breuer!

> > > But with master you can load the respective SVG and export it as shape to
> > > get the desired effect (see attachement).
> >
> > I've got around it by using svg:path. However, the "z" command is not executed
> > correctly, leaving a visual gap in place of the joint.
> Gap confirmed with dia-0-97 branch and GDK renderer. One benefit of the big 
> renderer interface change on master is preserving the close information. 
> Formerly only Renderer::fill_bezier() was known to be closed, while 
> Renderer::draw_bezier() was used for closed or open stroking. Now there is 
> Renderer::draw_beziergon() to stroke and/or fill.

Now, you make me want to set up windows building environment for Dia >.<
Are you up for answering a bunch of stupid questions?

> > [...]
> > However, there's another problem with this shape.
> > 1. I can't seem to make it 3x3, even if I add a background r=1.5 circle, the
> > resulting shape is a little thinner. Is this, perhaps, because ellipse is a
> > little taller than 3 units?
> Good guess, but it works for me with current master and the r=1.5 circle.

After another try it worked for me too. Thanks.

> > 2. How can I override the line colors and styles for certain elements of the
> > shape?
> Again this works for me with master. Setting shape colors is certainly 
> possible with dia-0-97 as well, but I can confirm the lack of color with 
> the released version and your shape. It is because of a deficiency 
> extracting the color name from the style string. Two workarounds:
>   1) use numeric color representation
>   2) use stand-alone fill/stroke attributes

Got it with numeric colors, thank you.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon freemail ru) 17.03.2015, <05:11>

Sorry for my terrible english...