WYSIWYG?

[Paolo F Cantoni]

There seems to be a significant visual discrepancy between what you see on the screen and what gets printed.

We have some actors for which we have defined some responsibilities (aka internal requirements).  To display them on a diagram we have enabled the Responsibilities and Notes compartments - and as a consequence have had to enable rectangular notation.  (We've left the attributes and operations compartments checked but there's nothing in them).

For a significant number of these actors, when they print, there is an additional 1cm approx of white space at the bottom of the rectangle (but, interestingly, above the "composite" chain link symbol) - which is NOT visible on the screeen.

Anyone else observe this?  Is it just actors?

[Edit:  BTW have (*) Wrap Features set in Feature Visibility]

TIA,
Paolo

[«Midnight»]

Hi Paolo,

A long time ago I encountered something like this. It was with Note elements and such - things with a lot of text. I'd get the diagram all nicely laid out, then patch it into Word, or print directly. Often the elements would elongate, pushing the bottom border beyond what I'd see on the EA screen. The extra height was always at the bottom. It was not too big, but could be enough to cause elements to overlap.

As I say, that was quite a while ago, but I still verify all draft diagrams before printing or using the clipboard.

Recently I think I saw a caution about something that might be related. IIRC it was somewhere in the documentation, either for build 821 or 825 (I simply don't remember which). Could be a 'phantom' though. I've not been able to find it now that I look.

David

[PS: What I'm getting at is that this could be a side effect of the text layout algorithm; it might have been lurking for some time.]

[thomaskilian]

David, this can be seen when simply changing the zoom on tightly formatted notes. Depending on the zoom the font characters need to stretch - which in turn expands the notes. Rendering in general is not that simple - we all pulled out many hairs during real simple printing (especially when using M$ Word).

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Yes David, that's my impression - but I can't get enough of a handle on it to help Sparx figure where the problem is.

I can confirm Thomas' point that as you zoom out you get to a point where the picture on the screen more closely resembles the printed screen with the extra space.  So maybe there's the clue.

Paolo