Stoyan,

Thanks a ton, will try this and let you (as well as the fish ) know.

Cheers

Phil

There seems to be some Design Time License Problem for the component.

I have sent you an email.

Please check and let me know.

Thanks in advance

Cheers
Phil

Stoyan,

I checked the new dlls for PDF export and here are my findings -
1. When poly text layout is enabled, it shows empty boxes in PDF.
2. When Poly text layout is false, it shows text as per what is displayed on screen, but in a normal print out the labels on the boxes are unreadable (Autoscale as FitToPage).
3. When I do Autoscale as none, the diagram runs in 12 pages of PDF.
4. I tried all permutations and combinations of layouting, but the problem remains the same.

What I want is that the Graph displays as it is on the screen with paging.
I see a lot of blank spaces in the PDF after exporting with FitToPage and None for Autoscale.

Can i have something like, i define a rectangle exportable area and get only that area as exported?
Can i control the scaling applied in the Export of PDF? Something like value between FitToPage to None, (Which can scale up and down)
Can i have export preview (like print preview) and do some settinggs there with scaling and shifting to make the diagram printable.

The PDF's and the Diagram saved files are mailed to you.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers

Phil

Stoyan,

Thanks a lot. I guess i will have to do some programmatic juggling to do that.

Well property would be great, but judging the scale factor at run time is the challange.

Let me see what my brains come out with, will bother you more with questions if i come across while racking the solution for the same.

Anyways thanks a ton.

Cheers

Phil

Stoyan,

You read my mind ... .
I am thinking on other lines as well ... like export part diagram, export selection etc.

Maybe juggle around with redrawing the selected boxes and arrows on a new page, layout it and export.

Let me see how i can achieve this. I am more for the user to see and export it. My user will not export complete diagram as it would be a mess. Imagine printing 1000 odd boxes and 2000 arrows on a single page. we will probably have to sell him electron microscope as well .

Anyways this needs some juggling as to -
1. Select .... Layout .... Export .... Print
2. Select one box .... Layout all connected boxes ... Redraw on new page .... Export ... Print

I would love to give him an export preview so that he can see how the output looks like. Looking at the preview he can adjust the scaling of the diagram as well as the box labels.

Hmmmm time to give some excercise to my grey cells 8)

Thanks a ton anywas

Cheers

Phil

Stoyan,

Thanks a ton, will check it out and let you know.

Cheers

Phil

Phil,

We've made that similar to printing - the document area is cropped at the right and bottom sides of the objects' bounding rectangle, but not at the top and left ones. We'll add an ExportArea property to the next version to let you explicitly set the area.

Scale in PdfExporter should be the same as the flowchart's ZoomFactor, as long as font scaling is enabled in the flowchart using the World unit for fonts.

It might be possible to use the PrintPreview method for previewing the PDF  8) Just set the same paper size, orientation and margins. Well, as a side effect the user will be able to print the diagram be clicking the Print button.

Cheers
Stoyan

Phil,

These dlls are from version 4.2.2. We are currently testing it and updating the help files, and will release it in a few days. ExportArea and a few other small updates will be available in v4.2.3.

Cheers

Stoyan