On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, David Christian Berg wrote:
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 06:28:24 +0100 From: David Christian Berg <david@...407...> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] snap to page border
On Mi, 2004-11-24 at 03:31 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, David Christian Berg wrote:
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:19:38 +0100 From: David Christian Berg <david@...407...> To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] snap to page border
The first and often only guides, I create, are guides on the page border and guides that are within a 5 mm frame from the border. Now this makes me think if it wouldn't make sense to have a "snap to page border" in the documents prefs (page tab) as well as a "snap to margin" and then be able to define a top, left, right, bottom margin of the page. Should I file an RFE?
I am sure it would be useful to have.
I wonder if snap to grid could be improved to avoid needing a seperate preference? (What do Illustrator Freehand or other applictions do?)
I notice that the grid already lines up with the vertical edges of my page but not the top edge, perhaps the grid positioning could be tweaked so that it lines up with the top and left edges more easily?
Not really because the grid is not _supposed_ to do that, since you specify the distance between the gridlines and maybe an orgin.
Okay so in the case of the document I opened it was coincidence that the page edges coincided with Grid lines but you said "maybe an origin" so I am asking if there is any reason for the 'origin' not to be setup in such a way as to coincided with the top left corner of the page?
Damn. To answer my own question I see that Inkscape considers the bottom left corner to be the origin and the grid does align with that corner.
I think a seperate option is actually quite needed and it's what I know from InDesign after all.
I thought the grid was more dynamic than it really was, the current grid hides some of the lines when it is at 50% Zoom level and as a result I incorrectly assumed that the grid was dynamic and got subdivided at different Zoom levels (but it doesn't).
- Alan