Im so happy, that this issue popped up!
You can use the Pen tool for most of this (though not all):
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#How_to_measure_distances_and_ang...
That's realy only good for when you actualy create the segments. After the fact it's not precise enough.
But any measure tool would work "after the fact", by clicking on some points in the drawing and measuring them. Is that not so?
There is lacking of snapping to nodes! And cant measure an angle a proportion of an other object! We definitely need a measure tool what can snapping foreverything like the recent edit (F2) snapping ability. So we can measure to guid, grid, other object bounding box, other nodes, etc.
It would be extremaly useful for technical drawing, presentation, and other possibilities (like enterprise logo) where there is a need for exact shapes.
A real world example i've had is a letter V and tweaking the hight of the right end of it. The 2 nodes have to be moved colinear to the sides of the right arm of the V to keep all angles the same.
Ah, that I added it long ago. Try dragging with Ctrl+Alt in Node tool.
It works for only one node. For two node, one is deplacing along the line, but the other is moving parallel for the first object. It is good for certain task, but not for all.
Considering this use case: http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/7359/image40290id.png
So it will be really good to move all the nodes along ther side tangent to it! It would be really usefull to have this possibilities.
Question (completely unrelated):
When I have build this simple diagram, I have placed bitmap image to inkscape. The bitmap image are sharp in gimp, and in any other bitmap editor. In inkscape I have imported those image, and it become BLURRY! I have setting all the possibilities to pixel unit, and at zoom level 1:1 it is blurry. At zoom level 2:1 (magnified) the bitmap image sharp (big pixel size) and matching 1:1 with an 1px long 1 pixel wide line. So the blurry thing is valid only to zoomlevel 1:1.
here is a screenshot to demonstrating this issue: http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/7223/screenshot22id.png
An another at zoom level 1:1 too: http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/1084/screenshot33ko.png
The strangest thing is that the 4 images are not the same blurries ... For example the bottom left image seems more sharp az the others. All the image size are identical (467x252 px) and .png files.
Best regards, Khiraly
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On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 02:40:49PM -0300, bulia byak wrote:
So, what you need is not really a separate tool, but a way to see and enter numeric coords for nodes, first. For that we have an RFE. Then we can build on that to measure distances and angles.
Cool, added a comment to [ 865050 ] NODE EDITING: editable x/y fields in controls bar
Cheers, Thorsten Wilms