Hello Everyone,<br><br>I&#39;m working on improving the usability of guides as a GSoC project.<br><br>My mentor (Johan), suggested that henceforth &quot;inkscape:guide&quot; be used instead of &quot;sodipodi:guide&quot; as the SVG attribute for representing guides. In my branch one of the things we worked on was to change the co-ordinate system used by guides from desktop co-ordinates to document co-ordinates.<br>


<br>Snapping, general guide operations etc. seem to be working properly after the co-ordinate change in my branch.<br><br>A problem arises when a user opens an SVG that has &quot;sodipodi:guide&quot; using a build of Inkscape that uses &quot;inkscape:guide&quot; as the attribute.<br>

What should (ideally) happen in this situation?<br>
<br>Johan suggested the idea of creating an extension script that transforms between new and old guides. The user will be made aware of this extension when an incompatibility is detected.<br><br>Samuel<br>