To: discussions about usage and development of dia <dia-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: Saving format
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:31:20 +0200
On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 11:03, Alexandre Fen-Chong wrote:
> Hello,
> sorry for my english I'm French :p
>
> when I save a diagram with the format .shape
> the properties of the objects which aren't displayed on the diagram, aren't
> saved in the file.
>
> Are these properties saved somewhere ?
>
> Or there is a format that allow to save also the properties not visible in the
> file you save ?
>
> Or there is another way to save these properties in a file that you save?
Sorry about the long delay on replying.
When you save as a shape, it gets turned into SVG, so only the visual
parts are stored. You can't make a shape with those extra properties.
For just saving the diagram, always use .dia format.
-Lars