On Di, 2004-06-22 at 08:51 +0300, Artemio wrote:
Hello there!
I am using Inkscape 0.39 (20040618).
Say I have drawn a rectangle. Then I want to resize this rectangle but only horizontally (e.g. make it shorter), but I want this process to be precise, so that object height is fixed while I drag the right bottom resize dot. Currently, this is not possible. If I Ctrl+drag, the rectangle resizes proportionally. If I convert it to curves, I can use the center resize handles to resize it, but I want my corner radii to be left as in original, so I don't want to convert it.
Proposal: when Shift+drag is used on the resize dot of the rectangle tool, make only horizontal (fixed y size) and only vertical (fixed x size) resizing possible, depending on where the user drags.
Good luck!
Artemio.
Maybe the trick with the extrahandle to have the radii stay the same while scaling should be moved into a keybinding for general scaling? This way, you can still use the right, left, top, bottom and corner handles, the way you are used to it from scaling rects without radii. What do you think, Bulia? Has anyone any proposals for a binding?
David