Hi all,
When generating documents, there is sometimes a need to split a large diagram into separate images. But EA's functionality for this use case is a completely useless.
What you need to do to invoke it is to select Divide Diagram into Multiple Pages,
and select two numbers in Scaled Printing - Custom where at least one of those is >1.
Note that
the manual unequivocally states that "This option is only effective when the 'Scaled Printing' option on the 'Print Advanced' dialog is set to 'None'." This is completely incorrect. You in fact have to set Custom. (Scale to 1 Page might work, but I haven't bothered to check since that seems pointless.)
When you do this, there is no indication which image is which -- no symbols on the images and no metadata at all that I can find -- and images that end up empty (can happen) get generated with the rest, with no option to skip them.
Any connectors that cross a page (image) boundary just terminate with no indication what's at the other end. The only way to work that out is to line the images up side by side -- but the whole reason to split the diagram into multiple images is that there isn't space enough to do that.
So basically this function just places an X-by-Y grid over the diagram, generates that number of images and outputs them in some undocumented (but probably consistent) order.
What is the point of this?
Has anyone got any useful results from using this function?
/Uffe
