On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, momo wrote:
More on topic: I am thinking about implementing a guide dialog (where all guides are listed and can be edited) aswell as guide coloring as proposed in this thread.
To repeat: for all feature requests, provide as much information as detailed as possible. It will tremendously speed up the implementation process and it provides a good base for discussion.
I attached a couple of screenshots of guidelines from Corel Draw. The first screenshot (guides1.png) shows the colored and rotated guidelines. The guidelines can be colored directly from the palette (same color selection as for outline color). Also, IMO a good thing is that the guides are drawn with dotted lines, and not full lines. This way they don't distract too much, while staying visible.
Dotted lines for guides are a good idea, everyone else does them that why odd that Inkscape doesn't. Colour may not seem like such a great idea but it needs to be configurable to some extent for accessibility reasons.
The second screenshot (guides2.png) shows the guidelines manager window, where guides can be added/deleted/moved/rotated
Hmmm. Seems comlicated. Overkill?
Also, Corel has the possibility to move selected guidelines with the keyboard, and guidelines can stick to objects and to other guidelines. It's a VERY useful functionality that I use for example to put guides around an newly created object (yellow guides around a 50x90mm business card in the
I guess I really should write a script to put guides around the current selection bounding box. The only reason I wrote a guides to selection script for the GNU Image Manipulation program was to make image slicing less cumbersome, I hadn't really considered it would be all that useful for actual artistic purposes so this is interesting to know.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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