re:diazy

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Avin Sigurani wrote:

> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:42:11 -0800 (PST)
> From: Avin Sigurani <embiopterid@yahoo.com>
> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie>
> Subject: re:diazy
>
> I have communicated with the originator of the diazy
> programm, and apparantly it has not actually become a
> pluggin yet.  I had read that the reason the diazy
> program is able to do what it does so simply is that
> dia saves its diagrams in .xml, which is fairly easy
> for the program to parse and convert to code and back
> again, but when I look at the .dia files they apear to
> be some kind of binary file.  What's going on?

Turn off the compression,
it is a Gzipped xml file.

In the Save dialog there is a checkbox you can turn off.
There is also an option in the preferences to turn off compression by
default.
I prefer not to compress files by default and I dont think Dia should do
it by default easier mostly because we wouldn't get these questions and it
makes support easier in other ways (too late now to worry about it though)

We had a big long chat about giving a seperate file extension for the
compressed version but I never provided any code - my bad - and nothing
changed.

Yes this is a Frequently asked question, which means I should provide a
patch if it is not already in the FAQ.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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