dia — a diagram drawing program
dia
[-c
] [--credits
] [-e
] [OUTPUT
--export=
] [OUTPUT
-L
] [LAYER,LAYER,...
--show-layers=
] [LAYER,LAYER,...
-h
] [--help
] [-n
] [--nosplash
] [-s
] [WxH
--size=
] [WxH
-t
] [FORMAT
--filter=
] [TYPE
-v
] [--version
] [file ...]
Dia is used to create diagrams. Dia has a number of basic tools, like lines and boxes but can also dynamically load sheets. A sheet is a collection of tools that are used in a certain type of diagram.
Most diagram objects in Dia have connection points. Lines can be connected to these connection points and this way graph structures can be formed. When objects are moved or resized the connections will follow the objects.
Diagrams drawn in Dia can be exported to various formats.
Dia accepts the following options:
-c
--credits
Display credits list and exit.
-e OUTPUT
--export=OUTPUT
Export loaded file to OUTPUT and exit.
-h
--help
Display a list of all commandline options.
-n
--nosplash
Do not show the splash screen.
-s WxH
--size=WxH
Export loaded file in decimal given width and/or
height. It is allowed to only select width or height.
E.g. --size=
exports an image that is 520 pixels wide, while
520x
--size=
exports an image of 900 pixels height.x900
This option is currently only implemented for the PNG export filter. |
-L LAYER,LAYER,...
--show-layers=LAYER,LAYER,...
Only include specified layers when exporting. Layers can be specified either as a layer name, the layer number or a numeric range X-Y of layers. --show-layers=background,2-5 shows the layer named background and layers 2-5, --show-layers=2- shows layers 2 and up.
-t TYPE
--filter=TYPE
Export loaded file with TYPE and exit. Formats and variants are described below.
--list-filters
List export filters/formats and exit.
-v
--version
Display dia version and exit.
The following export formats are supported by dia. Most formats are implemnted by plug-ins so their availability depends on compile- and runtime-configuration.
cgm
(Computer Graphics Metafile, ISO
8632)
dia
(Native dia diagram)
dxf
(Drawing Interchange File)
eps
or
eps-builtin
or eps-pango
(Encapsulated PostScript)
The format specifications eps
and eps-pango
both
use the font renderer of the Pango library, while
eps-builtin
uses a dia specific font
renderer. If you have problems with Pango rendering,
e.g. Unicode, try eps-builtin
instead.
fig
(XFig format)
mp
(TeX MetaPost macros)
pdf
(Portable Document Format)
plt
or hpgl
(HP
Graphics Language)
png
(Portable Network
Graphics)
shape
(Dia Shape File)
svg
(Scalable Vector Graphics)
There are three different SVG exporters with Dia having different
specializations. cairo-svg
is turning text to shapes
to become independent of font availabilty on the target system.
dia-svg
is based on Dia core code only. It's
translating all Dia's rendering capabilities as closely as possible to SVG.
svg-py
- as SVG renderer implemented in Python - is
producing plain SVG. It is the most hackable version to allow some user
adaptions
pstricks-tex
(TeX PSTricks macros)
pgf-tex
(TeX PGF/tikz macros)
vdx
(Visio Diagram XML)
wpg
(WordPerfect Graphics)
wmf
(Windows MetaFile)
dia creates a directory
.dia
in the user's home, which contains
different files to store user preferences. To reset
dia to it's default behaviour, just remove
the respective file:
defaults.dia
: contains default
values for elements (XML format).
diarc
: keeps
dia preferences (ASCII).
history
: keeps the list of last
edited diagrams (ASCII).
menurc
: contains an automated
accelerator map dump (Lisp).
persistence
: contains GUI
information, e.g. open windows (XML).
pluginrc
: the list of loaded
plugins (XML).
Copyright 1999 Alexander Larsson.
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.
This manual was written by
.