Re: feature request

[Abraham van der Merwe <abz frogfoot net>]

Hi James!

> > >  --scale is very important to me. The reason for this is that I use dia to
> > > make figures that I embed in latex documents. The problem is that by
> > > default, if I convert dia -> eps (or fig), the figure doesn't fit on a page
> > > (and even if it did, it would still be to big).
> >
> > This would solve my problems too (I use LyX / LaTeX). I didn't realise
> > that the printing "scale" would change the exported scale, but it does
> > so at least I can do it via the GUI for now :-) A --scale would be
> > great though, and let me do it in my Makefiles.
> 
> For latex, why don't you just set the width option when including the
> graphics?  Something like this:
>   \includegraphics[width=4in]{filename.eps}
> 
> (I might have the syntax slightly wrong.  Been a while since I used
> latex).  That is using the graphicx package.

That doesn't help. If you don't set the scale in dia, you export only half
the file (since the diagram doesn't fit in a page), so you won't see the
entire image, no matter what width you specify.

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Regards
 Abraham

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