On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Julius Voigt <juliusvoigt@...889...> wrote:

Hi,

I found inkscape the best open gfx app.

All the more gelastic it was that it's not possible
to draw the popular black line of 1px width in true
plain black color without having to load an extension
(pixelsnap) which did not function in my poor case.

Could we have both the smoothness
(?anti-aliasing or underlying between-pixels grid?)
and the crispyness optionally available.

Potentially? Yes. Realistically? It's hard to say.

Consider this. A path with a 1px stroke always needs a .500 coordinate, X or Y, to perfectly fit the pixel grid (because the stroke is split 50%+50% around the path). Same about 3px, 5px, 7px, and so on.

Theoretically it's possible to read the current stroke width value and apply a special snapping case, but I fear that it's likely to introduce poor programming practice and poor usability.

Alexandre Prokoudine

http://libregraphicsworld.org