GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 167724
Old drawings incorrectly rendered when opened by a newer version of Dia
Last modified: 2005-02-28 17:51:00 UTC
Distribution/Version: Debian A Debian user reported the following: ======================================================================== I have some state diagrams drawn with earlier versions of Dia (some version greater than the 0.88.1-3 in stable). When opening these files with Dia 0.94.0-4 all state boxes wider than the default width are shifted left. This will also break connections between boxes and lines. I have attached an example file produced using the 0.88.1-3 version together with screenshots taken from that version and the 0.94.0-4 version of Dia after opening the file. Newer Dia also reports some errors when opening the file. ======================================================================== See also http://bugs.debian.org/292326
Created attachment 37604 [details] Example Dia File
Created attachment 37605 [details] Output of Dia 0.88.1
Created attachment 37606 [details] Output of Dia 0.94
Yes, that was the unfortunate side effect of switching to a reasonable layout system, i.e. Pango. Pango and old Gtk had very different ideas of how to render strings. This is a dup of some bug, but I have not the time to find it.
There really is no reliable way to fix this, I'm afraid.