Hi all,
In the latest revisions you will notice that Inkscape now has a snapping tab in the preferences dialog. It contains some non-document specific settings, such as for example the snap indicator toggle. There are some new parameters too though: 1) You can now specify the snapping delay (as promised a few weeks ago) 2) I've added a slider which controls which type of snapping Inkscape will prefer. When multiple snap solutions are found, then Inkscape can either prefer the closest transformation (when the weight-slider is set to 0; this is the old mode), or prefer the node that was initially the closest to the pointer (when the slider is set to 1). The way Inkscape calculates the preferred snap has been improved too, which should lead to more predictable snapping 3) There's a toggle to force Inkscape to only try snapping the (source) node that is closest to the mouse pointer, à la Coreldraw. When this mode is enabled a snap indicator will shortly be shown at that node. This will give you maximum control of the snapping which is useful for more complex drawings with many nodes.
Have a try and let me know what you think of it....
Diederik
Just a reminder, please don't forget to document all changes in http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes047 - thanks!
Diederik van Lierop wrote:
Have a try and let me know what you think of it....
Hi,
I'm not much of a professional developer, but as a user I'm telling you I love it! Finally I can make Inkscape behave like all the other applications that I use when it comes to snapping.
The most intuitive settings for my personal taste where:
Enable indicator Delay: 0 Only snap to closest: False Weight: 1
On Document prefs, I ticked everything (pertaining to snapping behaviour) and set all three radio buttons to proximity with radi as follows:
Snap to objects: when closer than 20 px Snap to grids: when closer than 10 px Snap to guides: when closer than 20 px
This makes snapping near instant and hard to snap out again while pushing knots around the canvas. If snapping gets in the way, there's always the "%" shortcut for disabling it on the fly.
I'd like to propose consolidating all snapping prefs into Inkscapes's global preferences. I never felt there was much use for setting the snapping behaviour on a per-document basis.
Thanks for implementing those features.
André
On 12/03/2008 01:24 AM, AndreBerg wrote:
but as a user I'm telling you I love it! Finally I can make Inkscape behave like all the other applications that I use when it comes to snapping.
Good to hear!
I'd like to propose consolidating all snapping prefs into Inkscapes's global preferences. I never felt there was much use for setting the snapping behaviour on a per-document basis.
There has been discussion on this before, so you're not the only one feeling like this. But imagine working on two documents simultaneously. If you want snapping enabled in one document but not in the other then you definitely need per-document snapping properties. Should we let go of this flexibility? What would it really bring us if we put everything in the preferences? The only thing I can imagine is that you could have the same settings for all documents without too much hassle; currently you would have to make your own template for this, which would only be of use for new documents.
Isn't this discussion just a matter of preference ;-) ?
BTW, sorry for not responding earlier!
Diederik
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