Hi Máirin,
I used to stumble over the same issue until someone posted this default settings (see attached file). The grid is set up as Johan Engelen explained in previous mail. Since then I draw happily perfect alligned icons. When I switched from illustrator to inkscape it was this allignment issue that I really missed until I got hold of these grid settings, since then I prefer to pixel allign in Inkscape,
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Máirín Duffy <duffy@...2818...> schrieb am 17.04.2012 03:26:15:
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Re: [Inkscape-user] crisp lines and floating point
On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 12:47 +0200, Johan Engelen wrote:
I guess you are using the "visual bounding box" (preferences ->
tools).
I don't think I ever modified this so it must be the default setting?
Oddly, my 1 px line is at .00 x .00 coordinates when I turn on geometric bounding box but the line is blurry / inbetween pixels. If I make the coordinates .05 x .05 then the line is crisp. (?!)
The path itself is at an integer coordinate. But because the stroke width is 1 px, the path spills out 0.5 px on both sides of the coordinates specified for the path. The X and Y coordinates in the toolbar correspond to the boundingbox values. (so you see a width of 1
px, for example).
I don't know exactly what you want to end up with.
I think if the pen tool is set by default to draw 1 px and it is impossible to draw a crisp, pixel-grid aligned 1 px wide (or any odd integer width) line, it's a bug, isn't it?
If you want your path to align exactly with pixels, I think you want the path itself to be
at
integer+0.5 (!!!). To do this, you could use a grid that is set to 0.5
px spacing, and then a major grid line every 2 lines. The major lines will then be pixel boundaries, and you can snap your paths to the
minor
grid lines at 0.5px.
It just seems odd to me that it's not possible to draw a straight pixel-grid aligned line in Inkscape out-of-the-box. Thanks for the workarounds and for confirming I'm not crazy though, I thought I must be missing something.
~m
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