On 1/13/09, Thomas Holder <speleo3@...58...> wrote:
Hi,
spiro mode in freehand pen tool does not make sense.
Why? Right off, it produces smoother curves, especially at high smoothing value. At low smoothing, the visible difference is not that great, but when you start to node-edit it, the behavior is quite different, and for me, much more pleasant. I want all my paths to behave that way when editing, so why exclude one of the path tools?
Even for bezier tool the spiro mode is not that useful, as you don't see the spiro while drawing (which would be nice indeed).
Sure it would. Just needs to be coded.
But since you still draw beziers and spiro just gets applied _after_ path finishing, you could likewise apply it via the path effects dialog.
Hmm, there's quite a difference in the effort spent between just releasing the mouse and going into some dialog, digging Spiro among dozens of other LPEs, clicking Apply...