I don't want to do it under Windows ; please help

[Matan Ziv-Av]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Dan Shimshoni wrote:

> Hello,
>  Please help me to stay with Linux and not
> go back to Windows...
> I had stopped using windows about two years ago;
> though I have a dual boot , I almost did not
> boot into windows in the recent two years.
> I am very satisfied with Linux. Everything
> that I had in Windows I could get in Linux.
> But:
> now, I had to prepare some diagrams. I tried
> with the "dia" tool. I created a diagram and
> converted it to png. The result is reasonable.
> However,...
> I need to draw some arrows in an angle and
> I need to add some text **parallel** to these lines. This means that
> the text should not be
> vertical or horizontal, but in an anlge (30 or 45).
> And it seems that this is **not** possible in dia.
>
> Does any one know a tool with which it can be done?

Apparently newer versions of dia support this.
See here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/dia-list@gnome.org/msg11986.html

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Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan at svgalib.org