On March 9, 2013 at 9:52 PM Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...> wrote:
2013/3/9 Bric <bric@...2538...>:
Thanks. I forgot yet another feature/function: (4) Rotation of a node subset. Or is that already part of the "transformation handles" ?
Yes, it's already covered. To enter rotation / skew mode, enable the handles, select some nodes and single-click one of the nodes - basically the same thing you'd do in the selector tool.
I'll try version 0.48 asap. (I tried installing via ppa on an old Ubuntu, 10.04LTS, but am running into a glitch ("...is already the newest version..."))
AFAIK, the PPA contains a package called 'inkscape-devel', not 'inkscape' and it's a snapshot of the unreleased 0.49 version. It's even better than 0.48 (e.g. much better performance) but has a few serious bugs which are blocking its release, for example large bitmaps are not scaled down correctly.
Thanks. I'll try to install (just tried and failed with "inkscape-devel")...
Meanwhile, here I go again, with node feature requests... (at the risk of again requesting something that already exists):
How about moving/dragging a node ("node A") along the "slope line" -- running through nodes A and B? (You'd have to select two and only two nodes for this. Then be able to drag A or B any which way along the slope line)
I can see many many practical uses for such. One would want to extend/shrink any diagonal, defined by two points. Including when the diagonal is not just a standalone segment but is part of a greater collection of nodes.
thanks
Regards, Krzysztof