Re: feature request

[Nicholas Piper <nick-dia nickpiper co uk>]

On Mon, 03 Sep 2001, James Henstridge wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Nicholas Piper wrote:

> > 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}

Yeah, this is what I do at the moment. It's nice however to be able to
just drop files in and them come out a a good "natural" size. In
addition, viewing filename.eps with gv would use shedloads of
memory. The Bounding Box that dia gives is really too big! 30 percent
of it appears to be a reasonable size, and would be a much better
default.

Nick

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