Hello,
I've just compiled 0.40pre1 and wanted to give some feedback:
- Like 0.39, very large paths (4000 nodes) are very slow, especially during zoom and when I go into node-edit-mode (inkscape spends a lot of time drawing stuff that's off-screen).
- While dragging with the middle mousebutton, inkscape should stop drawing when I move the mouse. That would prevent these nasty "hickups" when panning and allow to pan in models of any complexity.
- Is there a way to leave the "cut object" (used in cut path) alive?
- There should be a way to set the layer of an object; using "next layer" and "prev. layer" is ugly.
- I'm editing a vectorized image (a scan of a map). Unfortunately, the "strokes" of the original image were converted to polygons by potrace. Is there an easy way to turn them into lines?
- I'd like to have a way to split a path at a point (turning that point into two endpoints, leaving orientation, etc, alone). Can you add that, please?
Ideally, the tool should use a crosshair which snaps to the closest path and whenever I click, it should cut the path.
- How do I join the ends of two paths?
- Is it possible to create a polygon by specifying a set of paths? The idea is that I have N paths which are the borders of an area (a land on a map). Now, I want to be able to create a polygon and the borders from the paths. The borders themselves should get special styles (border to the sea, to another land, province, etc) while all "borders" of an area joined should give the outline of the background. Even better: Two adjoining lands would share the same border. When I move a point of the border, I change the border and the two "land areas".
Can I do that in inkscape?
Thanks,