I would gladly see drawings etc. of what people would like to see and how it is done in other programs; I like the time for an exhaustive research myself. I am working on the grid system at the moment, and it should not take too long before the axonometric (3D) grid becomes fully functional. Right now I am trying to provide an easy way to implement new grids, so although it might take a while for any other advanced grid to be implemented, at least the extra info will help me a lot in deciding what to provide and what not.
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.
Cheers, Johan
Hi, 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.
The second screenshot (guides2.png) shows the guidelines manager window, where guides can be added/deleted/moved/rotated
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 third example) and then create a 3mm bleed area with other guides (the new green guides are sticked to the yellow ones, then moved with the keyboard that has a 1mm nudge set), to place cut / imposition marks. It's a real time saver since I don't have to fill precise coordinates for every single guide I create, the central object itself is the start point for all the guide positions.
Thanks! Molumen
