On 2007-November-15 , at 19:26 , Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Sep 6, 2007 12:36 AM, bulia byak wrote:
On 9/5/07, Diederik van Lierop wrote:
The last few days I've spent on improving the performance of the object snapper. It used to take ages (e.g about 6 seconds on my machine) to move a simple rectangle over a large text box, but I've managed to reduce this significantly (i.e. < 1 sec.!). This was with both snapping to paths and snapping to nodes turned on. For this I had to refactor the object snapper code significantly, so I might have introduced new bugs or regressions. Please be aware of this and report any suspicious behavior, so we can have both fast and robust snapping in v0.46!
I wonder if within current snapping framework the so called Smart Guides are possible. That is -- snapping without touching.
Description for AI is here: http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Illustrator/13.0/help.html? content=WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-6314.html
These are kind of all around in Apple apps but their absolute best incarnation is in OmniGraffle, a vector drawing tool more flowchart oriented than Inkscape is. I did not find a screencast of this feature proper, but by the third of this one http://downloads.extremesims.com/omnigroup/software/MacOSX/movies/ OmniGraffle/tutorials/part1.mov there is a small description of it. I guess that the only way to truly see how good they are is by testing it. If you've got a friend with a mac around, OmniGraffle is usually given as a gift with the OS. If Inkscape could acquire such flowcharting capacities (basically that and a magnet system) it would make it a great replacement for this (given for free but still shareware app). Furthermore, Inkscape's connector tool by itself is still underused though it already has features that Omnigraffle does not. With these additional feature, Inkscape would become a flowcharting heaven ;)
Among open source applications only Kivio (flowcharting and diagramming tool from KOffice) has smart guides, to the best of my knowledge.
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