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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: Daniel Huss on November 24, 2008, 10:09:19 am

Title: Vector graphics output
Post by: Daniel Huss on November 24, 2008, 10:09:19 am

Why EA is unable to save diagrams as vector graphics is a mystery to me. There is, however, a temporary workaround using a PDF printer. But since there is no auto-cropping when printing, changing the printing borders in the page setup menu is the only way to get acceptable images.

It's still a pain because changing the printing borders is a major procedure that involves opening the windows printer settings dialog then going back to EA and select a postscript printer-specific layout preset.

Is there an easier, more direct way to change the printing borders?

Title: Re: Vector graphics output
Post by: mrf on November 24, 2008, 10:24:05 am

What vector format are you expecting? EA supports saving diagrams as EMF. If you are wanting SVG there are plenty of conversion utilities available.

Title: Re: Vector graphics output
Post by: Daniel Huss on November 25, 2008, 05:58:35 am

Whoops. :-[
I concluded that EMF wasn't a vector format when there was no scaling in IrfanView. Mea culpa!

Now, if I ever find a conversion utility that doesn't cost 50$ or more, I'll make sure to post it here. The only alternative so far seems to be the Apache Batik SVG library, which features a transcoder component.

In the meantime, I'll keep printing PDFs. There is a nice cropping utility (Govert's PDF Cropper) that removes the need for a proper page setup altogether.