Dia export resolution too small

Question

I am trying to export a diagram to a format I can load into a wiki tool called 'confluence'. The resolution of any export format or even the .dia save file is so small, that when I insert the image it is too small to be seen. When I try to enlarge it, it is blurry.

How do I increase the resolution of Dia save files or Dia exports?

Version: 0.97.2

Same problem here using the same version (from the Ubuntu repositories). — Nikos Alexandris, Mar 07 '13 at 13:40
Related inforamation at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535179 — Nikos Alexandris, Mar 07 '13 at 13:52

score 29 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 28 '13 at 11:22

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This depends a little on the export formats. For some (e.g. PNG antialiased) you can specify a resolution in pixels. For other formats, go to File->Page Setup... and increase the scale factor.

answered Jun 28 '13 at 11:22

Steffen Macke

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On Ubuntu with Dia version 0.97.2, increasing the scale factor in File->Page Setup... fixed the issue for me. – i_grok Mar 07 '14 at 15:42

score 25 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 03 '14 at 14:11

On export, specify the PNG (anti-aliased) (*.png) exporter. When you click Save, it will ask you for the resolution. Change either the X or Y, and it will scale up the other so your image is not distored. Do not use the Cairo or Pixbuf exporters, as they do not ask you.

To specify the PNG exporter, select File->Export, and at the bottom of the Export Diagram dialog is a section Export Options and the drop down to list the available exporters.

This still has a low DPI. I can't change this. – Melroy van den Berg May 17 '15 at 17:08 — Melroy van den Berg, May 17 '15 at 17:08

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 05 '13 at 20:45

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Check menu "File" -> "Layout" Then check the scale is set to 1 (do not set the sheets)

answered Jun 05 '13 at 20:45

FVdW

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 19 '20 at 13:23

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I have discovered the .svg format for me. It is a web-standard and a wiki software should definitely provide loading such files. It's VECTORBASED. That's great! Now, it's even supported by Microsoft Word to paste in such a .svg file. Compare it with PDF, but it's even more light-weighed as to what disk usage is concerned. You can embedd it at many places.

answered Sep 19 '20 at 13:23

FLeuthold

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Yes, together with other tools like Inkscape, this may resolve the original question. – quazgar Apr 27 '21 at 11:32

Dia export resolution too small

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