Re: Drawing Circles in Dia

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Alan Horkan wrote:
> 
> if you have dia setup to snap to the grid you should be able to draw a
> proper circle fairly easily.
> 
> i dont know if there is a better solution, but i would like to know.
> Anyone?
> 
> On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Jingzhao Ou wrote:
> 
>> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 09:25:22 -0800 (PST)
>> From: Jingzhao Ou <jasonou@yahoo.com>
>> Reply-To: dia-list@gnome.org
>> To: Dia mailing list <dia-list@gnome.org>
>> Subject: Drawing Circles in Dia
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I know how to draw ellipse in Dia. However, can anyone
>> tell me how to draw circles?
>>
>> I used to use Visco. When drawing ellipse, you press
>> the Shift button, it will keep the ellipse a circle.
>> Does dia have such function?
>>
>> Thanks a lot!

No, there isn't really a similar thing in Dia.  Boxes can retain their
aspect ratio, maybe ellipses should as well?

-Lars

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