Re: Adjusting canvas size

[Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>]

Randy,

I misspoke about paper size and margins.

The page breaks represent the printed area of a page WITH margins. 

So a letter size page 8.5x11 (portrait)with 2 inch margins all round means the page breaks represent an area of (8.5-2-2) x (11-2-2) ==> 4.5x7.

Or a letter size landscape page of 11x8.5 with 5 inch margins the page breaks represent an area 10x7.5.

This way when your diagram covers more than one page you automatically get a print out you could tape together into a full size representation (with scaling applied).  You don't have to worry about losing any graphics.

0 inch margins would theoretically put your diagrams at the edges of the paper, but with vagaries of printing it is probably not perfectly dependable - but that is what Dia would be attempting to do.

Hopefully, this give you some ideas how to work with it.  It is completely flexible in this way if a little weird.  You should definitely experiment to see how it goes.

When printing I find the Cairo outputs are dependable, and pdf. YMMV.

Mike

On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 2:11 PM, <rhkramer gmail com> wrote:

Mike,

Thanks very much!

Randy Kramer

On Sunday, July 31, 2016 01:25:52 PM Michael Ross wrote:
> The paradigm is a little different (well maybe since I don't know how Visio
> works). You simply make you drawing without concern for canvas size and
> forma the page breaks as needed for printing.  You can take the same
> diagram and put all on a 3x5 card or spread it over a 100 8.5x11 sheets.

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