I'm currently drawing a lot of maps, especially with municipality boundaries etc, this means a lot of closed paths, which should fit together like a puzzle. The snap function is a great help to this, but from another source I got some parts where the path is not closed, but the start and endpoint is there twice, without being connected.
Now I can select both start and endpoint, and click on the
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button (join selected end nodes) in the toolbar. Is there a shortcut for this? There isn't even a menu entry...
The same is valid: I have selected a subpath between two nodes, is there a way to add nodes in between other than the (+)-button in the toolbar? (I know of the double click, but if I want fast a lot of new nodes, this becomes rather tiresome.
Another thing with nodes: if I select only a few nodes from a path, and press the arrows, only these nodes move. The transformation tool though operates only on the entire path, so I cannot move a subset of nodes in a path by a fixed amount of pixels (e.g. make a zig zag line by selecting only the even nodes and moving them up a fixed amount).
I have only one object, let's say a rectangular shape on the canvas, from 100,100 to 300,200. If I now select 'adjust canvas size to object' from the document settings, the object in the xml still has 100,100, 300,200 as coordinates, but a transform(-100,-100) applied to it all. How can I apply the transformation to all objects, so that the object's coordinates (in the xml) would be 0,0 - 200,100?
And last, how does one make a distinction (and possibly convert) a path with absolute coordinates (uppercase M at the beginning of the path) to a path with relative coordinates (lowercase m)? I think this should be as easy as changing the path's direction