> 1) Snap of non-scaled contours
>
I've disabled the scaling of contous. When I take a line with an arrow
end and snap it to a path or anything the countour is scaled during the
procedure and when I release the mouse button the countour scales back
to the original
Probably this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/165727 ("display is wrong when transforming by mouse")
> but this also moves the snapped point.
This should not happen, and is not related to the bug above. Maybe you're running into this "bug":
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/706509
("Endpoint of scaled line segment moves"). This is not really a bug
though, although you could argue about that. IMHO it's consistent but
unexpected behaviour, related to the way inkscape has been coded. Have
you tried using a geometric bounding box instead of a visual bounding
box?
This blog post might also explain some of the behavior your seeing:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=646 (see the "marker clipping" paragraph)
> 2) Snap with alignment
>
I'd like to scale one side of an rectangle and snap it to a boundary of
another rectangle which has some distance. In Adobe Illustrator I can
move over the path to be aligned to and now this path is included in the
snapping selection. This is a very useful handling. Has someone an idea
if this is possible or might been included in future versions?
You're
referring to smart guides or smart snapping, right? I don't know AI,
but I believe that this has been discussed though at some point, and
some efforts where made in this direction. For now though you will
probably have to use guides for this
Diederik