On 1/12/06, miriam clinton (iriXx) wrote:
mental@...3... wrote:
Well, bear in mind we're talking about snapping sensitivity here. As far as I can tell, that's a UI thing which is tied to screen and mouse characteristics rather than document dimensions, sort of like mouse acceleration.
The question is -- is your printer going to be interested in the snapping sensitivity of your mouse? Ever?
It seems that this topic has lead us into a hardware/software issue, somewhat akin to balancing color profiles when viewing on different monitors or with different graphics accelerators. For me, snapping sensetivity /ought/ to be something I have absolute control over with my requirements for print design, yet it seems from your description, if I read it correctly, that hardware-software communication may get in the way?
Maybe it helps if you first try to explain what snapping distance/sensitivity means to you? (i think you might have the wrong idea still, but i am not sure)
Personally, I desire absolute accuracy, but then again I also work in sound design and am accustomed to editing segments a few microseconds long - knowing that I can snap to the microsecond in ProTools - using flat-response studio monitor speakers... and get highly frustrated when I listen through speakers that have bass-boosting or nasty little PC speakers... ;)...
Being able to snap to microseconds (or millimeters) come from the grid spacing, not the snap distance.
Snap distance is how close to grid points you must come before snapping to them. Once an object has snapped to a grid point it has the exact position of that grid point. For the printed result it doesn't matter from how far away the snapping occurred (or whether the snap distance was configured in screen or document units).