Why default fill-opacity value is 0.75?
In W3C SVG Specification default value is 1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/painting.html#OpacityFillOpacityProperty
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Quoth ttyS0 on or about 2004-06-24:
Why default fill-opacity value is 0.75?
In W3C SVG Specification default value is 1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/painting.html#OpacityFillOpacityProperty
I'm pretty sure that's only when you're creating objects. If you open something like
<svg><rect x=0 y=0 width=100 height=100 /></svg>
...you'll find that the default fill is #000000FF (i.e. black, 100% opaque).
I'm pretty sure you can change the default RGBA color for objects, though I haven't tried since I left sodipodi.
-trent
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 03:13, ttyS0 wrote:
Why default fill-opacity value is 0.75?
In W3C SVG Specification default value is 1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/painting.html#OpacityFillOpacityProperty
This is for objects that don't specify. When objects are drawn in Inkscape their opacity is specified. This is adjustable in your ~/.inkscape/preferences.xml file in <group id="tools" style="">.
--Ted
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Ted Gould wrote:
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 03:13, ttyS0 wrote:
Why default fill-opacity value is 0.75?
In W3C SVG Specification default value is 1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/painting.html#OpacityFillOpacityProperty
This is for objects that don't specify. When objects are drawn in Inkscape their opacity is specified. This is adjustable in your ~/.inkscape/preferences.xml file in <group id="tools" style="">.
To answer the 'why' of this - initially all shapes were created gray, with 100% opacity. We thought that was too ugly for Inkscape, so changed it so the shapes are different colors with 75% opacity. It was made that way just to make the user's first experience be more colorful. Like Ted says, the settings can be overridden in your preferences file.
Bryce
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 13:44, Bryce Harrington wrote:
To answer the 'why' of this - initially all shapes were created gray, with 100% opacity. We thought that was too ugly for Inkscape, so changed it so the shapes are different colors with 75% opacity. It was made that way just to make the user's first experience be more colorful. Like Ted says, the settings can be overridden in your preferences file.
Note that it's not necessary to edit the preferences file by hand.
Just pick e.g. "Apply to: Rectangle Tool" in the "Fill and Stroke" dialog, and then you can change the defaults for the rectangle tool interactively.
-mental
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