Arrow Sizes and line widths [was Re: Poll!]

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Lars Clausen wrote:

> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 11:33:00 +0100
> From: Lars Clausen <lars@raeder.dk>
> Reply-To: dia-list@gnome.org
> To: dia-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: Poll!
>
> On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 09:56, Joseph Carter wrote:
> > As I voted other...
> >
> > I think length 0.6, width 0.5 works ok.
> > 0.5 both ways is too small and I think the increased length gives a
> > slimmer
> > look to the arrow which is more aesthetically pleasing IMHO
>
> The only problem with that is that we'd use the same default size for
> all arrows, and this'd make the round arrowheads ellipsoidial.  Attached
> is a PNG of how the various sizes look, with three different arrowheads
> (the left-most one is currently selected by default).  Should have made
> that before the poll, of course.

I voted for other.  I couldn't really think of the arrow length in
isolation.

I did a bit of playing around and I'm now using line width 0.01
arrow length 0.4 and arrow width 0.2 which gives me a nice 2:1 slope on
the arrows.

I also really like the much thinner lines, I have also felt that Dia has
produced very large chunky diagrams and at the default size and zoom level
I very quickly produce large diagrams that sprawl over many pages (more
due to my lack of artistica ability than Dia but I find pushing down the
line sizes for everything really helps make things look sharper and more
professional).

Sincerely

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