Re: How to change page size to selection size <SOLVED WITH WORKAROUND>

[Steve Litt <slitt troubleshooters com>]

You're not kidding Michael. I'm a photoshopping ninja! Just go to
http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200312/200312.htm and search for the
word "dog".

SteveT

On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:40:29 -0400
Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com> wrote:

> Photoshopped?  Just kidding.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Steve Litt
> <slitt troubleshooters com>wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:43:02 +0200
> > Hans Breuer <hans breuer org> wrote:
> >
> > > At 10.04.2013 20:48, Steve Litt wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:31:43 -0500
> > > > Steve Litt<slitt troubleshooters com>  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > In previous dia versions, within dia I've been able to set the
> > > > > page size of a drawing to a selection of all objects on the
> > > > > drawing. Then, a simple export to svg would give the exact
> > > > > sized graphic in svg form, ready to put on a website. The new
> > > > > dia version I just installed has no random resizing
> > > > > capability, restricting the user to a predefined list of page
> > > > > sizes.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > As you know, previous Dia versions had a "size to selection"
> > > > button for page size, but current versinos got rid of that
> > > > feature.[...]
> > >
> > > You said that before and apparently are not aware of my answer:
> > > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2013-February/msg00031.html
> > >
> > > It does not become more true by prefixing that statetment with "As
> > > you know". At least I am not aware of any "size to selection"
> > > button having been available in Dia in the last twelve years.
> > > Please be more specific what you did before - especially how - and
> > > what is not working anymore in which version.
> >
> >
> > I'll tell you what Hans,
> >
> > I'll go to the not inconsiderable trouble of:
> >
> > 1) Find a spare computer
> > 2) Find a copy of Ubuntu 10.04 or whatever
> > 3) Take a complete set of screenshots of the facility to size the
> > page to selection
> > 4) Make the screenshots available to the list
> >
> > I'll do all that if you promise to put back the functionality that
> > the screenshots reveal.
> >
> > SteveT
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