On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 04:31:25PM +0100, Abrolag wrote:
On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:23:04 -0500 Aaron Spike <aaron@...476...> wrote:
Daniel Hulme wrote:
I often use scale to produce shapes such as trapezia. I draw a rectangle, convert it to a path, select the two adjacent points I want to be the narrow end, and hit "," to scale them down. That way I know the trapezium is symmetric and that the two parallel edges are parallel.
Fantastic tip!
Aaron Spike
Hmmm, and "." expands it instead.
Now how do I manage to remember this?
Well, if you think about the keys as < and > rather than , and . it might be easier to remember. But really the only way is to make it a habit: use those keys whenever you want to scale a whole object uniformly around the centre, rather than shift-dragging the corner handles.
Just in case anyone didn't know, you can also use ctrl or alt in combination with the scale and rotate keys to do so in bigger resp. smaller steps. Ctrl doesn't seem to work when you're scaling nodes, though. Perhaps one of the developers can explain why.