bulia byak wrote:
- When painting a circle in Inkscape and moving it the move is stored in
the transform translate tag. Can anyone tell me why ?
Because you cannot, in general, embed an arbitrary transform into the circle's parameters (center and radii). Actually a move only could be embedded into cx/cy, but since other transforms cannot, we didn't special-case translation (although this is possible, and is done e.g. for rectangles - so if you desperately need that, you can submit a patch).
This is a slightly perplexing declaration; perhaps made clearer by saying that a circle is to inkscape a case of elliptic arc, and/or can be filled in a way that is not symmetric (with a linear gradient, for instance).
A symmetric circle or disk can obviously be rotated around an arbitrary center, or uniformly rescaled, by changing at most its center and radius.
Cheers, BB