Re: print preview

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On 16 Jan 2003, Chris Sperandio wrote:

> While I'm probably alone in this... working in PowerPoint and Word all

You are not alone! (but nor do i think it is likely that anyone will go to
the effort of adding this feature).

> day at work (not my choice), it would be helpful to me if there was a
> way to only show a single page instead of multiple pages with page
> breaks.  I know the same information is already there but most of my
> diagraming needs to look right on one page and this sort of goes back to
> how Dia handles scaling in the first place.  I don't know how the
> interface would work in choosing between views or how this can be

In a consistant and standard way that is how.  It makes sense to do these
kinds of multiple views in a similar way to how MSOffice does them.

> implemented.  Just an idea to make Dia a little more similar to some
> other diagraming apps for users that want it.

While pondering this "Page Layout" idea i threw together some Dia files
which use layers to give a feeling of being more like a page layout.

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/dia/

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/dia/templates/View-PrintLayout_FakePage01Portrait.dia
http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/dia/templates/View-PrintLayout_FakePage02Landscape.dia

Sincerely

Alan Horkan