On 9/21/05, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...233...> wrote:
Also, wrt the smooth node removal (definitely something I always hoped for too). It kinda sounds like this could tie into the ability to adjust the node count of an object via a spinbox or whatever. I believe someone mentioned that this is possible in Corel Draw, which my demo expired for so I can't test it. I guess that you can just select an object and choose the number of nodes it should have and this can always be adjusted. It doesn't sounds easy to me, would we be able to utilize the simplify code as a basis to get the node removal working in that "new" way?
I don't think a node count would be of any use. Simplify does what it says - it visibly simplifies the path. I don't care if it results in more or less nodes than before. Of course more often than not it reduces the node count, but it's more of a side effect. So I agree that an interactive slider for simplifying paths would be handy (although Ctrl+L works fine for me in 99% of cases), but I think it must adjust the simplification threshold, not aim for a specific node count.
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