math operation in dialogs
just wondering if I should file a bug, or if it's so simple that I don't need to. Especially in the guides and the positioning dialog it would be helpful to be able to put mathimatical stuff in there. Imagine you have a guide at 45.6 and want one 7 mm further to the right, you'd just type 45.6+7 and there you go... even more important is something like dividing by 2 or 3, I need that quite often.
Btw: Since my laptop was for repair, I used CorelDraw, and I think for basic vector editing and layouting inkscape is by now better than Corel. That is something!
Which also brings me to one other thing I'm missing: Baseline Grid. Even for simple flyers and brochures it's nice (or rather necessary) to have. CorelDraw just pissed me of for not having it!
I got my laptop back, with working ethernet card, Yeah!! Take care!
David
just wondering if I should file a bug, or if it's so simple that I don't need to.
File a RFE please.
Btw: Since my laptop was for repair, I used CorelDraw, and I think for basic vector editing and layouting inkscape is by now better than Corel. That is something!
Which version of Corel? :)
Which also brings me to one other thing I'm missing: Baseline Grid. Even for simple flyers and brochures it's nice (or rather necessary) to have. CorelDraw just pissed me of for not having it!
What is baseline grid and how it's different from the grid we have on pressing #?
On Di, 2004-10-12 at 15:58 -0300, bulia byak wrote:
just wondering if I should file a bug, or if it's so simple that I don't need to.
File a RFE please.
Yeah, but not right now, it's too late, hope I'll remember tomorrow. Sure I was talking about RFE and not a bug.
Btw: Since my laptop was for repair, I used CorelDraw, and I think for basic vector editing and layouting inkscape is by now better than Corel. That is something!
Which version of Corel? :)
Version 11... I don't think 12 is any better. The 0.39 Version of Inkscape I have is quite unstable though... I'm hoping for something new soon in Debian.
The main advantage is how transparencies are handled and that the updating of the canvas work better.
Which also brings me to one other thing I'm missing: Baseline Grid. Even for simple flyers and brochures it's nice (or rather necessary) to have. CorelDraw just pissed me of for not having it!
What is baseline grid and how it's different from the grid we have on pressing #?
Baseline grid is a grid to have the baseline of text adjusted to if you have several lines. It's basically for paragraph text, but for flyers with only a few paragraphs inkscape is better suited than scribus or indesign. So when you have to textboxes (not yet available, I think, but anyways) at different positions on the canvas the lines will be aligned horizontally. This looks a lot better. In Corel it pissed me of because I had to use guides or objects and move the textboxes up and down until it fit quite well. Is is clear, what I'm talking about? If not so, take a look at
On Di, 2004-10-12 at 15:58 -0300, bulia byak wrote:
just wondering if I should file a bug, or if it's so simple that I don't need to.
File a RFE please.
Yeah, but not right now, it's too late, hope I'll remember tomorrow. Sure I was talking about RFE and not a bug.
Btw: Since my laptop was for repair, I used CorelDraw, and I think for basic vector editing and layouting inkscape is by now better than Corel. That is something!
Which version of Corel? :)
Version 11... I don't think 12 is any better. The 0.39 Version of Inkscape I have is quite unstable though... I'm hoping for something new soon in Debian.
The main advantage is how transparencies are handled and that the updating of the canvas work better.
Which also brings me to one other thing I'm missing: Baseline Grid. Even for simple flyers and brochures it's nice (or rather necessary) to have. CorelDraw just pissed me of for not having it!
What is baseline grid and how it's different from the grid we have on pressing #?
Baseline grid is a grid to have the baseline of text adjusted to if you have several lines. It's basically for paragraph text, but for flyers with only a few paragraphs inkscape is better suited than scribus or indesign. So when you have to textboxes (not yet available, I think, but anyways) at different positions on the canvas the lines will be aligned horizontally. This looks a lot better. In Corel it pissed me of because I had to use guides or objects and move the textboxes up and down until it fit quite well. Is is clear, what I'm talking about? If not so, I'll try to find an example image on the web somewhere.
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 02:51:55AM +0200, David Christian Berg wrote:
The 0.39 Version of Inkscape I have is quite unstable though...
I haven't noticed that. If you're using the Debian package, then please file a bug with Debian.
I notice that Debian already has bug reports filed for 64-bit problems (alpha, ia64). Are you using a 64-bit system? (If so, can you help debug? I don't know how to debug 64-bit problems without being able to run gdb on inkscape running on a 64-bit system.)
[baseline grids] Is is clear, what I'm talking about?
Still not clear to me at least. You've motivated it by describing what it's useful for, but it isn't very clear to me what behaviour is required of inkscape.
pjrm.
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 02:51:55AM +0200, David Christian Berg wrote:
The 0.39 Version of Inkscape I have is quite unstable though...
Forgot to say: you might try testing current CVS version and see if the problem still exists: http://www.inkscape.org/download.php
pjrm.
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