Re: Bug report for 0.88.1 - resize & fig export

["Dolores Alia de Saravia" <loli unsa edu ar>]

This is a question to Lars Clausen:

When wou wrote "This is easily fixed", do you refer to
   --- the resize problem
   --- the fig export problem
   --- to both problems
?
 Thank you.
      Loli

> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Cris Bailiff wrote:
> 
> > I can't find any on-line bug reporting system, so I'm mailing to the
> > list:
> > 
> > * As reported here recently, dia 0.88.1 can't resize shapes with
> > internal text (other than by editting the text). My example is the
> > 'cloud' from the network sheet, which only sizes to fit the
enclosing
> > text. Bit hard to draw the whole internet with a cloud thats smaller
> > than every other icon.
> > 
> > * Export to fig format has troubles (I accept its experimental):
> > * Colour definitions are incorrectly formatted in the output file,
so
> > fig rejects them and all images come out all black. The hex strings
> > appear to be loosing the required zero padding - I have
> > 
> > '0 33 #0ff0'
> > 
> > instead of (I assume)
> > '0 33 #000ff0'
> > 
> > and likewise for colour 34:
> > '0 34 #ffff0'
> > 
> > which I made
> > '0 34 #ffff00'
> 
> This is easily fixed:
> 
> Index: plug-ins/xfig/xfig-export.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gnome/dia/plug-ins/xfig/xfig-export.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.1
> diff -u -r1.1 xfig-export.c
> --- plug-ins/xfig/xfig-export.c 2001/05/08 21:17:09     1.1
> +++ plug-ins/xfig/xfig-export.c 2001/07/17 15:53:42
> @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@
>      return;
>    }
>    renderer->user_colors[renderer->max_user_color] = *color;
> -  fprintf(renderer->file, "0 %d #%x%x%x\n",
renderer->max_user_color+32,
> +  fprintf(renderer->file, "0 %d #%02x%02x%02x\n",
renderer->max_user_color+32,
>           (int)(color->red*255), (int)(color->green*255),
(int)(color->blue*255));
>    renderer->max_user_color++;
>  }
> 
> 
> > * Colour definitions need to be first in the file (before objects).
I
> > moved the '0 xx' lines to the top of my sample, and fig stopped
> > complaining.
> 
> This is more nasty -- it means I'll have to either make two passes or
store
> most output in a string.  Two passes sounds like the right thing to
do.
> 
> > * I still have a bunch of complaints about ploygons with fewer than
3
> > points - again, possibly missing zeros, but I'm not sure on this
one.
> 
> This is more odd -- which objects give that?
> 
> > Promising start - I'd love to have dia do really good fig export
(and
> > import too?)
> 
> Import is more difficult, as Dia is not really set up for import. 
Better
> export will be possible when we have the more advanced grouping system
> we've discussed earlier, which will let shapes appear as groups in
Fig.
> 
> -Lars
> 
> -- 
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Loli
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