Re: XML file format - Linux vs Windows

[Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille chepelov org>]

Le Tue, Jun 18, 2002, à 10:45:32AM -0300, Ian Britten a écrit:


> Works perfectly!
>
> Unfortunately, this has to be done per-user.  I'd like to suggest that
> perhaps if the user chooses to save their files as uncompressed XML, that
> Dia turn this option on automatically.  Thoughts?

This makes sense.
 
> > And the different fonts and resulting bounding box size mismatches
> > aren't producing irrelevant changes ?
>
> I don't want to talk about fonts... :-<   (Courier seems to work ok :-/)
>
> As for the bounding boxes - I had noticed they changed a lot, and presumed
> they must be tied to screen resolution or something...  Getting them the
> same would be great...

They are a lot influenced by the screen resolution and the font renderer's
idea of the rendered width of a given string. There is little we can do
here.

> > see above. The real approach would be a graphical diff
> > based on dia's interpretation of two xml files - wouldn't it ?
> > [Don't get me wrong, I don't plan to write such]
>
> That'd be cool  (but wasn't what I was meaning)
> The reason for minimizing the diffs is twofold:
> - Keeping the files as small as possible, by storing incremental diffs
> - Using that fact (and XML buzzwords) when showing PHB the benefits of dia
>   (Using tkcvs/tkdiff to visually show someone the incremental changes
>   seems to be a really, really effective selling point when trying to
>   convince them to change to dia...)

Really ? 

Wow. 

Hmmm.

<speechless/>

        -- Cyrille


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