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.
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.
However, right now I'm not sure how to deal with rotated/twisted rectangles that have stroke applied (since I can't use their visual bounding box as provided by sp_item_bbox_desktop, for example). Will think about that.
I don't think there's an easy fix for this...
Diederik