GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 133644
dia is too metric
Last modified: 2019-03-20 11:09:32 UTC
Hi, a Debian user reported that dia only uses metric units. I didn't recognize many of them, but found some in "Page Setup". See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=61422 bye, Roland
It is true that Dia is metric-centric, in fact centimeter-centric, and that is on our wishlist. It does respect /etc/papersize, though.
Mass reassign of 0.92[-pre*] bugs to 0.92.2
Dia is "Scientific" and uses ISO standardised units, it is a _feature_ not a bug :P Seriously though I am fairly sure it would be a massive pain to fix Dia do to other unit types but any patches you could provide to help us get there would be very much appreciated.
Created attachment 169950 [details] [review] Inital stab on showing the scale in inch The request recently came up on the mailing list again [1], so I tried how hard it would be. Although it involves some magic numbers (and trial and error) attached something basically working. I'm not interested in this feature myself, but if anyone cares enough to do some coding the patch could give a starting point. [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2010-September/msg00005.html
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