While fiddling with freehand smoothing I remembered something from a while ago that I never got an answer for.
Currently, freehand drawing produces a curve in which the nodes are cusp by default. There are other vector programs which do the same. However, it leads to lumpy lines which may not be desirable (for example lumpy contours in mapping are just not on). These are often fixed by selecting all the nodes and making them smooth. My question is why not make the freehand default node type for Inkscape to be smooth? Or at least make it an option in Inkscape Preferences?
The attached file shows two freehand lines drawn in black The superimposed duplicate curves have had all nodes selected and changed to smooth types by Ctrl A/ Shift S. The resultant curve is much smoother.
If this was easier to code, maybe it could be used as an interim measure while the heavy stuff in freehand smoothing is being fixed. Or is there something basic here that I am missing?
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