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The trouble with Dia

The trouble with Dia

Posted May 5, 2004 4:22 UTC (Wed) by bryn (guest, #1482)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to diagram editors

I think that Dia is a beautiful program - it loads quickly, has a simple interface, and the graphics look great. I would love to use Dia for my diagrams. The only thing that stops me is the inability to rotate objects. I happen to need to do that for a lot of my diagrams, so it's a real show-stopper. I've seen bug reports requesting rotation for ages, but it's still not in the most recent release (AFAIAA). There appear to be problems with not being able to arbitrarily rotate text, but I would be happy if it could just rotate simple objects - a 2D rotation matrix should be trivial to apply.

Such a shame. It's an itch I'd love to scratch, but Dia's way out of my league for programming.


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