The reason for this is because there is a similar tutorial for OpenOffice.org. I felt jealous. OpenOffice.org Writer is a word processor while dia is a diagram creation program.
Start the app with:
dia
Click on File/New. You are now ready to populate your diagram.
Notice the main window layout:
+-------------------------+ | Menu. | +-------------------------+ |Pointer and basic shapes | +-------------------------+ | Style/shape library | +-------------------------+ |Shapes for chosen library| +-------------------------+ | Colors and line width | +-------+-----------+-----+ | first |line style | last| | arrow | |arrow| +-------+-----------+-----+
Using a combination of these tools you can make any shape you desire.
Like The Gimp, Dia depends heavily on a menu on the right mouse button inside the diagram. That menu contains all the diagram-specific actions and a few other things, so you almost never have to find the menu on the toolbox.
See also: Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials
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