19 Oct
2006
19 Oct
'06
2:02 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:33:25PM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
Skew is included in the Transform dialog but as far as I know there are no tools or extensions to automate the process as I understand your request.
Except, Skew isn't what he wants at all. Skew, Rotation, Translation are all Affine Transforms, which is what the Transform dialog offers. What he/we/whomever want is the ability to perform Perspective Transforms. The math isn't that much more complicated, it just isn't implemented, and no offense intended, but there are some real scary bits in the Inkscape code base (as there are in all).
Affine transforms look like
[a b c] [d e f] [0 0 1]
Perspective transforms look like
[a b c] [d e f] [g h 1]
Jeff
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