On 7/9/07, Daniel Pope <mauve@...1559...> wrote:
Alt+<> isn't fine enough,
In principle we can make the distance of all Alt+ keystrokes settable in prefs, so you can set it for example to 0.1 screen pixels instead of 1. Will this address your needs?
- Making curves line up tidily, especially to get the outlines of different
paths to overlap.
Not sure what you mean by lining up, but can Align and Distribute perhaps be useful?
- Correcting for antialiasing blurriness. I can pixel align some things using
the coordinates on the toolbar, but sometimes (when elements extend outside of the box I'm trying to align) slow scaling is more convenient.
Yes, that's an interesting use case because it indeed requires fine scaling _without_ zooming in, so you can see the effect of it on antialiasing at your target resolution. But I think it's a rather narrow use case to waste an entire modifier on :) Besides, I'm sure some of the AA problems can also be fixed by snapping to pixel grid.
I've never found zooming in to be a particularly convenient alternative anyway: swapping to another tool
Why switch tools for zooming? Inkscape has TONS of ways to zoom without leaving your current tool. I don't remember the last time I used the Zoom tool.
viewport at once. Now though, zooming in to do fine work can take on the order of minutes to render the window when using Gaussian blur, and be unusably slow even then, so it's simply unacceptable to work that way.
True, zooming with blur is slow - but then I'm having trouble imagining why you need subpixel precision with things that are blurred anyway :) And remember you can always press Ctrl+Num5 to toggle Outline mode and everything will be lightning fast.