Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:19:38 +0100 From: David Christian Berg <david@...407...> To: inkscape-devel(a)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?

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 06:28:24 +0100 From: David Christian Berg <david@...407...> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> Cc: inkscape-devel(a)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(a)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.

I think a seperate option is actually quite needed and it's what I know from InDesign after all.

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.