On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 22:59 -0800, Nikki Bennetts wrote:
New to Inkscape. Going through tutorials. Stuck on Step 2c of Can of Soup tutorial. Nodes are not at the horizontal or vertical axis and so I can't split the ellipse across the horizontal plane. Nodes are offset at 1, 4, 7 and 10 o'clock. Is there a step missing?
I just tested the latest version of Inkscape and the nodes appear correct if you draw an ellipse directly with the Ellipse tool and then convert the ellipse to a path.
How did you draw your ellipse? My guess is that you drew a circle, rotated it, and then squeezed it. This is the only way that I can think of to get the nodes at other than 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock. Rotating the circle will rotate the ellipse handles to a different orientation.
Tav