On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 09:20:05PM +0100, Bungee wrote:
Bryce Harrington <bryce@...69...> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 08:05:26AM -1000, wayne wrote:
Objects seem to align to the grid 3 ways: to the center line of the object's outline, to the outer edge of the outline, or to the inner edge of the outline. This leaves some wiggle space which can throw off the manual aligning of several objects. Is there any way to turn off 2 of the 3 and get rid of the wiggle space?
I've been able to improve results by fiddling with the settings in the Grid section of the Document Preferences dialog. YMMV. The grid functionality is definitely an area that could use some tuning.
One thing I've noticed that needs to be taken into consideration, is that technical drawing users and artistic drawing users have subtle but fundamentally different notions of how grid snapping should work. Thus, work on this code should take into consideration the need for users to be able to easily get the style of snapping that they prefer. In the past, when the snapping got optimized for technical drawing usage, someone else reverted it back to a more artistic style, so I think some design thought needs to go into figuring out how best to handle snapping.
Bryce
Related to this, it seems that you can't have a grid size smaller than 2.5mm. For the work I would like to do on Inkscape I need to have a minor grid size of 1mm (and ideally 0.5mm)
Can you submit a feature request for this? My guess is that this is a simple thing to change, but will require doublechecking a couple things and testing it a bit.
Bryce