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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> 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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