Re: Fixed size custom shapes

[Andy Ng <andreas2025 gmail com>]

Thank you very much for the responses. I have used the default-size
tag on each object. It works for me. :)

Again, very much appreciate  your replies.

Andy

On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com> wrote:
> Andy,
>
> This generally how Dia works: a general flexible, customisable method will
> be implemented and applying the customisation is left to the user.
>
> What ask for would restrict function.
>
> You can probably create a work around. If you have a Dia that works for you,
> where your shapes are the size you like when you place them, take note of
> the preferences, page setup, and so on to create an empty Dia you can call
> up as a starting point.
>
> But the general implementation expects you will want to resize shapes.
>
> You might explore using a grid and grid snap for getting sizes uniform on
> the canvas.
>
> There is one important feature of the Dia paradigm/work flow, you draw
> without regard to absolute scale, getting things to look good, then you set
> up the page or pages around it. There are functions for zooming and
> scaling-they are not the same. Experimenting with them will be useful to see
> how they work.
>
> I should mention that I am not an expert creating shapes. I never liked how
> that works. I draw things, group them and ungroup as needed, I often cut and
> paste the groups to a "storage" Dia, then copy and paste them back into my
> "working" Dia. The storage Dia is a tab of the viewport (as is the working
> Dia) that functions almost like another set of shapes in the sheet palette.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Aug 21, 2016 9:54 AM, "Andy Ng" <andreas2025 gmail com> wrote:
> > Thank you for your kind reply. I just want my shapes not to be resized
> > on the canvas.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Andy
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 3:11 AM, Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>
> > wrote:
> > > It used to be the shape sizes were in centimeters within Dia. A 1 x 1
> > > shape
> > > would be 1cm x 1cm.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Andrey <anrdaemon yandex ru> wrote:
> > > > Greetings, Andy Ng!
> > > >
> > > > > I would to design some new shapes, but I don't want those to be
> > > > > resized when placed on canvas. Is there any way to achieve that?
> > > >
> > > > You can't really prevent the resize, I don't think. Else you wouldn't
> > > > be
> > > > able
> > > > to print your diagrams to scale.
> > > > But you can specify starting size -
> > > > "<default-width>...</default-width>"
> > > > tag.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > With best regards,
> > > > Andrey Repin
> > > > Wednesday, August 10, 2016 19:26:49
> > > >
> > > > Sorry for my terrible english...
> > > >
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