Diederik van Lierop schrieb:
Maximilian Albert wrote:
You are right. I also thought of making this distinction but haven't yet implemented it. At present, only the geometrical bounding box is taken into account, and the guides for rectangles and 3D boxes use the precise location of the nodes (disregarding stroke etc.). I don't think that for 3D boxes anything else would make sense anyway. But for rectangles and other objects this would indeed be useful. How about adding the following option in the "Guides" tab of Document Preferences: "When converting objects to guides, use visual/geometric bounding box"?
We can't snap to the stroke outline anyway, so aligning the guides at the nodes is the right thing to do here. When using the bbox instead, then just follow the bbox preference as set for the selector tool, that should do.
Thanks, this was what I needed. This preference option is now taken into account when converting objects to guides. Moreover, I added checkboxes in the Rectangle and 3D box pages to allow converting these using their bbox, too. In case anyone is interested, here is the Release Notes entry:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046#Converting_objects_t...
BTW, we don't have a better location for this bbox option yet, but this doesn't feel right. It's not only applicable for the selector tool.
Why not simply move it to the global "Tools" page? Shouldn't be a problem that this page otherwise empty, should it?
Max