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 <bookinfo>

  <title>Dia</title>

  <copyright>

   <year>2004</year>
   <year>2009</year>

   <holder>Kevin Breit</holder>

   <holder>Henry House</holder>

   <holder>Judith Samson</holder>

   <holder>Alan Horkan</holder>
   
   <holder>Mark Dexter</holder>

  </copyright>                                                  
  <authorgroup>
   <author><firstname>Kevin</firstname><surname>Breit</surname></author>
   <author><firstname>Henry</firstname><surname>House</surname></author>
   <author><firstname>Judith</firstname><surname>Samson</surname></author>
   <author><firstname>Alan</firstname><surname>Horkan</surname></author>
   <author><firstname>Thomas</firstname><surname>Harding</surname></author>
   <author><firstname>Mark</firstname><surname>Dexter</surname></author>
   <author><firstname>Hans</firstname><surname>Breuer</surname></author>
  </authorgroup>



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  </legalnotice>                                                                



  <releaseinfo>

   This is version 0.97.2 of the Dia manual.

  </releaseinfo>
  <revhistory>
  <revision>
    <revnumber>0.97+git</revnumber>
    <date>2011-04-25</date>
    <authorinitials>hb</authorinitials>
    <revremark>Work in progress for dia-0-98</revremark>
  </revision>
  <revision>
    <revnumber>0.97.2</revnumber>
    <date>2011-04-25</date>
    <authorinitials>hb</authorinitials>
    <revremark>Actually describing noteable new features/behaviour of dia-0-97.x</revremark>
  </revision>
  <revision>
    <revnumber>0.97.0</revnumber>
    <date>2009-02-20</date>
    <authorinitials>sdteffen</authorinitials>
    <revremark>Bumping dates and revisions to show progress for 0.97 release</revremark>
  </revision>
  <revision>
    <revnumber>0.5-2</revnumber>
    <date>2008-05-27</date>
    <authorinitials>HDG</authorinitials>
    <revremark>dropping HTML entities, making dia-1.xml independant from dia-cmdline.xml,
    dropping file extension from graphics</revremark>
  </revision>
  </revhistory>

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&INTRODUCTION;

&QUICKSTART;

&CANVAS;

&OBJECTS;

&BASIC-OBJECTS;

&SPECIAL-OBJECTS;

&SELECTING-OBJECTS;

&LOADING-SAVING;

&CUSTOMIZATION;

&LAYERS;

&CUSTOM-SHAPES;

&MANPAGE;

&AUTHORS;

&LICENSE;

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