Daniel Pope wrote:
Put another way, would anyone have any objections to re-opening this?
I've been fighting this battle since the beginning. Users often report a desire for pixel alignment without having to work at higher zooms. The only reason I can ever remember for this being impossible is that it would violate the principle of least surprise.
A) it is necessary to hide gridlines while zoomed out or the display would be too cluttered to work. B) snapping to invisible gridlines will surprise the uninitiated. C) therefore snapping to grid can only be enabled when grid is visible and only the gridlines visible at the current zoom can be snapped to.
I do agree that this is overly limiting to knowledgeable users. Perhaps a preference could be burried deep inside some dialog where newbies would be unlikely to find it. As I said I've been fighting for this but I've been veto-ed at every juncture. Keep mentioning this issue and I'm sure someone will listen someday.
Aaron Spike