Phil Hendry wrote:
The text on things like rulers is so tiny that I can't read it. Is there any way to make it bigger? I've trawled through the document setup and preferences and can't find a way to do it. At the moment it makes using it *almost* impossible. My screen isn't exactly huge, but neither is it tiny - it's an Apple 20" Cinema Display.
This is a difficult one. I think the solution lies not with Inkscape but with your GTK theme. The best lead I can give is to point you to the gtkrc files which may be found somewhere on your system. (I'd give more specifics but I am not a Mac user.)
The 'tooltips' appear under the Dock (which I usually keep on the LHS of the screen), unless I undock the toolbar, in which case the tooltips appear *under* the toolbar: AARRGGHH!!! Either way, they're unreadable. Probably won't matter once I get the hang of the package, but for a newbie, it's a PITA!
Sorry, no clue on this one.
The size of objects seem to change as one changes the thickness of their outline - seems odd to me - it makes aligning things a bit 'hit and miss' if you then go back and edit them later. Admittedly, Xara had a similar (but not identical) issue - it's the one and only area where I think Illustrator is superior.
That is a configurable behavior. There's a button for it on the toolbar when the Selection tool is being used. This might help:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Transforms.html
Aaron Spike