Several Fontforge behaviours for nodes could be interesting to introduce in Inkscape : automatic make vertical or horizontal handles for example. The extremas availability is already a great progress for Inkscape for those who draw fonts.

At the moment I re-draw Art Nouveau fonts ont top of very heavy scans of ancient text documents in Inkscape and this is very cool because one can align the characters and space them like in the original. This feature is lacking in drawing programs like Fontforge and even proprietary ones. Inkscape is perfect for that.

ivan

Le Mardi 10 mars 2015 22h24, Ryan Lerch <rlerch@...43...> a écrit :

On 03/10/2015 03:03 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:

I think we need some large changes in the node tool:
- make handles optionally selectable
- write manipulators for rectangles, spiral, star, etc and get rid of knotholder
- edit quadratic Beziers and arcs in the node tool

I have some ideas on how to do 1 and 2, but don't know how to allow editing elliptical arcs (i.e. what the control nodes should look like).

Regards, Krzysztof

On 10 Mar 2015 17:54, "Ivan Louette" <ivan_louette@...48...> wrote:

Do you mean that one should be able so select (and keep selected) one or several handles independently from the nodes themselves ? Like in FontForge ?

Le Mardi 10 mars 2015 17h37, иван кузнецов <kia00000@...3229...> a écrit :

i am ordinary user. i need have the same fitting ability for transform handles as for nodes. why its not done yet?

иван кузнецов.

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I have two things that i have recently wanted too:

1. the ability to delete a handle somehow
2. force the handles of a corner node to be mirrored along the x or y axis -- when i change one handle of the corner node, the other is mirrored -- useful for drawing a shape like a perfect heart shape

--ryanlerch