Hi, all!
Is it possible to invert the coordinate system of a page? I mean, the measurement of a page become at its lower-left corner. It's possible to change this to the up-left corner instead?
Alessandro Antonello
And while we're at it, is it possible to offset the origin of the coordinate system at all?
Real example: I'm designing a board game and to make things easier I'd like all measurements to start at the center of the board at design-time and or 3,5 cm from the top/left edge of the page when certain tiles are to be aligned to a grid specified by the print house. Of course I can move around the artwork in relation to the origin but I can not as easily select all the guides and move them with the artwork and so, the best thing would be to be able to move the page origin.
With kind regs, Jimmy Volatile
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Alessandro Antonello < antonello.ale@...155...> wrote:
Hi, all!
Is it possible to invert the coordinate system of a page? I mean, the measurement of a page become at its lower-left corner. It's possible to change this to the up-left corner instead?
Alessandro Antonello
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On Wednesday, 17 June 2009 07:53:59 Alessandro Antonello wrote:
It's possible to change this to the up-left corner instead?
Turn your monitor upside down :D
(Sorry, I have no idea.) \d
Ok. So no one knows whether it's possible to offset the ruler origin? I've found out that you can offset the origin of a grid, and that helps, but I havn't found anything for offsetting the rulers yet. *Still in hope of getting a insightful answer* :) Thanks. /Jimmy Volatile
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Donn <donn.ingle@...155...> wrote:
On Wednesday, 17 June 2009 07:53:59 Alessandro Antonello wrote:
It's possible to change this to the up-left corner instead?
Turn your monitor upside down :D
(Sorry, I have no idea.) \d -- home: http://otherwise.relics.co.za/ 2D vector animation : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/things/ Font manager : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython/
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On 6/17/09 7:53 AM, Alessandro Antonello wrote:
Is it possible to invert the coordinate system of a page? I mean, the measurement of a page become at its lower-left corner. It's possible to change this to the up-left corner instead?
sorry, not at the moment, but is a known issue/missing feature according to the comments to these bug reports:
Inverted ruler co-ordinate system https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170049
Bottom/up coordinate system https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/364036
hth, ~suv
Is it possible to invert the coordinate system of a page? I mean, the measurement of a page become at its lower-left corner. It's possible to change this to the up-left corner instead?
sorry, not at the moment, but is a known issue/missing feature according to the comments to these bug reports:
Inverted ruler co-ordinate system https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170049
Bottom/up coordinate system https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/364036
hth, ~suv
As I could see in that posts, the coordinate system will cannot be changed in the next release of Inkscape. Maybe developers are taking this too much deep on changes that must be made to accomplish this feature. In the past century, Corel DRAW default coordinate system was bottom/left. But we could change it to top/left easily. The changes was made only in the interface. Internally and in the files the measurements still was written in the default coordinate.
So, IMHO, changing the coordinate in the drawing canvas could be just an adjustment in the interface of the software. Internally, Inkscape could still work in its default coordinate system, until the "deep" changes can be made to keep the SVG file format according to the standard.
So, IMHO, changing the coordinate in the drawing canvas could be just an adjustment in the interface of the software. Internally, Inkscape could still work in its default coordinate system, until the "deep" changes can be made to keep the SVG file format according to the standard.
The irony is that the SVG standard uses upper-left as 0,0 in it's coordinate system. The inkscape devels chose to make bottom-left the GUI coordinate system, and convert everything in the XML file.
-Rob A>
Actually we inherited that from sodipodi, and have never got round to changing it.
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On Jun 18, 2009, at 4:51 PM, Rob Antonishen <rob.antonishen@...155...> wrote:
So, IMHO, changing the coordinate in the drawing canvas could be just an adjustment in the interface of the software. Internally, Inkscape could still work in its default coordinate system, until the "deep" changes can be made to keep the SVG file format according to the standard.
The irony is that the SVG standard uses upper-left as 0,0 in it's coordinate system. The inkscape devels chose to make bottom-left the GUI coordinate system, and convert everything in the XML file.
-Rob A>
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Didn't realize that, John.
How embedded is that mapping? I browsed through the source code in SVN and couldn't locate a single base transform applied to everything when moving from the XML schema and the application. (Though I'll admit it wasn't a thorough search...)
-Rob A>
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:30 PM, John Cliff wrote:
Actually we inherited that from sodipodi, and have never got round to changing it.
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