Dear all,
I am new to Inkscape, and I'm very much in the discovery phase.
I'm trying to understand how snapping works (I am aware of the snap controls bar, of the snap tab in the preferences, and of the snap tab in the document's properties). It seems to work all right when creating a new object. However no snapping happens when moving an existing object. This behavior is very counter-intuitive to me. In GIMP for instance when snapping is enabled it works when moving objects too.
Is this the normal behavior ? If yes, how can I do precision work when copy-pasting objects (I need to draw a timeline, with 120 rectangles, one for each month for 10 years) ?
Thank you very much in advance for your help.
Pierre.
I am running *0.48*.3.1 r9886 on Debian 7, and snapping when moving objects to guidelines works for me using default settings, and snapping to other objects works by changing a couple settings in the snap toolbar. However, for organizing large numbers of similar objects in a predictable way, I recommend Align and Distribute (Control <or Command> - Shift - A or bottom of the Object menu) and Rows and Columns (bottom of the Object menu); it will get you what you want in most cases within seconds. -Arlo James Barnes
On 2015-07-25 16:27 (+0200), Pierre Massat wrote:
I'm trying to understand how snapping works (I am aware of the snap controls bar, of the snap tab in the preferences, and of the snap tab in the document's properties). It seems to work all right when creating a new object. However no snapping happens when moving an existing object. This behavior is very counter-intuitive to me. In GIMP for instance when snapping is enabled it works when moving objects too.
For Inkscape 0.91, please read this related section in the release notes: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.91#Snapping
Is this the normal behavior ? If yes, how can I do precision work when copy-pasting objects (I need to draw a timeline, with 120 rectangles, one for each month for 10 years) ?
Hi Pierre,
This behavior you're reporting is indeed annoying and known. It was caused by some changes in the code base and default settings, but this should have been fixed in the latest versions IIRC. Have you tried using v0.91, with default settings and preferences, and with a new file? Or is this with an older version or with files made long ago. Was this a clean install, which has overwritten any previous preferences?
Best regards,
Diederik
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Pierre Massat <pimassat@...155...> wrote:
Dear all,
I am new to Inkscape, and I'm very much in the discovery phase.
I'm trying to understand how snapping works (I am aware of the snap controls bar, of the snap tab in the preferences, and of the snap tab in the document's properties). It seems to work all right when creating a new object. However no snapping happens when moving an existing object. This behavior is very counter-intuitive to me. In GIMP for instance when snapping is enabled it works when moving objects too.
Is this the normal behavior ? If yes, how can I do precision work when copy-pasting objects (I need to draw a timeline, with 120 rectangles, one for each month for 10 years) ?
Thank you very much in advance for your help.
Pierre.
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Dear all,
Thank you very much for these quick replies. I tried what was suggested in the release notes and it worked (enable the 10th button).
I am using Inkscape 0.91 r13725, with a new file.
Cheers,
Pierre.
2015-07-25 20:26 GMT+02:00 Diederik van Lierop <mail@...2312...>:
Hi Pierre,
This behavior you're reporting is indeed annoying and known. It was caused by some changes in the code base and default settings, but this should have been fixed in the latest versions IIRC. Have you tried using v0.91, with default settings and preferences, and with a new file? Or is this with an older version or with files made long ago. Was this a clean install, which has overwritten any previous preferences?
Best regards,
Diederik
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Pierre Massat <pimassat@...155...> wrote:
Dear all,
I am new to Inkscape, and I'm very much in the discovery phase.
I'm trying to understand how snapping works (I am aware of the snap controls bar, of the snap tab in the preferences, and of the snap tab in the document's properties). It seems to work all right when creating a new object. However no snapping happens when moving an existing object. This behavior is very counter-intuitive to me. In GIMP for instance when snapping is enabled it works when moving objects too.
Is this the normal behavior ? If yes, how can I do precision work when copy-pasting objects (I need to draw a timeline, with 120 rectangles, one for each month for 10 years) ?
Thank you very much in advance for your help.
Pierre.
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As usual su_v was spot on, when reminding me off-list that this has been fixed after the 0.91 release. I will make sure that this gets backported to the 0.91.1 release too, so that you don't have to wait for 0.92 to be released. This is just too annoying, snapping of cusp nodes being off by default.
Diederik
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 5:34 PM, su_v <suv@...2638...> wrote:
On 2015-07-25 16:27 (+0200), Pierre Massat wrote:
I'm trying to understand how snapping works (I am aware of the snap controls bar, of the snap tab in the preferences, and of the snap tab in the document's properties). It seems to work all right when creating a new object. However no snapping happens when moving an existing object. This behavior is very counter-intuitive to me. In GIMP for instance when snapping is enabled it works when moving objects too.
For Inkscape 0.91, please read this related section in the release notes: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.91#Snapping
Is this the normal behavior ? If yes, how can I do precision work when copy-pasting objects (I need to draw a timeline, with 120 rectangles, one for each month for 10 years) ?
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Hello Pierre,
Dear all, I am new to Inkscape, and I'm very much in the discovery phase.
I'm trying to understand how snapping works (I am aware of the snap
controls bar, of the snap tab in the preferences, and of the snap tab in the document's properties). It seems to work all right when creating a new object. However no snapping happens when moving an existing object. This behavior is very counter-intuitive to me. In GIMP for instance when snapping is enabled it works when moving objects too.
Is this the normal behavior ? If yes, how can I do precision work when
copy-pasting objects (I need to draw a timeline, with 120 rectangles, one for each month for 10 years) ?
Looks like I always miss the on-goings of the userlist :) It sounds like what you'd like to do might be better suited using the rows and columns docker. You find it in menu "Object>Rows and Columns" The way I do it is create a rectangle, duplicate the rectangle 11 times (I press CTRL+D 11 times), this gives me 12 rectangles in total,before I select all 12 rectangles, I choose the spacing between each rect (I think you can only specify distance in px for now)and input the row to count to 1 and it automagically gives me 12 columns. I group the resulting squares and again duplicate it 9 times, then drop my column count to one and it gives me 10 rows.
Voila, 15 secs later my grid of squares.
I hope this helps you...
Judah
Thank you very much in advance for your help. Pierre.
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