On 2007-August-17 , at 09:14 , Georg P. Israel wrote:
Dear all,
how can I make precise drawings in Inkscape?
I have done several drawings in Inkscape, this tool really is great, but I am not able to make a precise drawing with it! The grid is activated, but still the resulting lines are not precise on the grid. This error becomes strongest if I export the drawing to a PDF. If I then view the drawing with acrobat at different zoom factors, then I see clearly that all the lines have small shifts against each other.
This is really devastating. Is there a trick to make Inkscape precise??
By default Inkscape uses the "visual" bounding box of objects to snap them. I.e. a simple line can snap to either of it's borders (and hence shift a bit from the grid). To make Inkscape precise you can switch to "geometric" bounding box snapping (Inkscape preferences > Tools > Selector > Bounding box to use). This way only nodes will snap and the line will be perfectly on grid. There is however a caveat with this setting currently: vertical or horizontal lines do not show any selection mark and can't be moved with the selector tool (their nodes can be moved with the node tool and they can be moved with arrow keys however).
To everyone: - is this setting really at the best location? It seems a little hard to find there. - is there someone working on the previously mentioned bug currently? It seems pretty important as it makes the geometric mode very hard to use
Cheers,
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/