On 2007-May-25 , at 05:28 , microUgly wrote:
I've not long owned a graphics tablet and last night I had a lot fun inking some pencils with the calligraphy tool. But one of the issues I have with tablets is that you can't rotate them to draw lines on those funny angles - well, you can but it makes drawing more difficult.
I've never seen any application do this, but it would be really neat if you could rotate the viewport/canvas just like you rotate a piece of paper. It is, of course, only going to be useful for tablet users. And I could rotate all of a drawing, and then rotate it backagain, but that would be tedious.
Someone proposed this on the devel list as an enhancement already and I think he/she is working on it currently, maybe even through a summer of code project (the idea came at about the same time, I just don't know if it was really SOC related or not). You could search the devel list for the rotate canvas keywords and it should show you the thread.
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
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On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 08:28:25PM -0700, microUgly wrote:
I've never seen any application do this, but it would be really neat if you could rotate the viewport/canvas just like you rotate a piece of paper. It is, of course, only going to be useful for tablet users. And I could rotate all of a drawing, and then rotate it backagain, but that would be tedious.
Painter does that and from my brief use of it I can say it is a great help. It's not tedious if there's a reset to zero feature.