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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: DanG83616 on July 03, 2008, 05:41:20 am

Title: Multi-diagram page support
Post by: DanG83616 on July 03, 2008, 05:41:20 am

Call me old school but I'd like to see support for one diagram spanning multiple pages. I suppose no one prints anything out anymore but I do. I would like to use 11x17 paper rather than D size so I need line continuation from page to page. Even D size can get cramped.

Purists that would say that if I need more than one page to describe the design it is too complex. Save it. I'm not building a coffee machine.

Thanks,
Dan

Title: Re: Multi-diagram page support
Post by: Eve on July 03, 2008, 08:20:26 am

I'm not sure what the problem is.  If you layout a diagram over multiple pages and print EA will print multiple pages that (if you removed the borders) could be laid out to form the full diagram.

RTF generation allows for something similar, although by default it shinks the diagrams to fit onto a page.

Title: Re: Multi-diagram page support
Post by: DanG83616 on July 03, 2008, 10:49:05 am

It just isn't as easy as I'd like. I have to carefully segment my diagram according to page boundaries, hide line segments that cross page boundaries, find a way to label the stubbed lines (page number and gird), indicate directionality in a way, ...

I'm working with Composite and State Chart diagrams in particular. The other UML diagrams segment more nicely and don't really need multilpe pages. I suppose Deployment diagrams could get complex enough.

If you look at a set of schematics for a typical circuit board you'll see lots of the features I'm talking about.

Thanks for asking,
Dan