Request for snapping behavior on object groups, text.
Hello! I've been using inkscape for about a year now, and I've really fallen in love with it. Now I use it for about two hours each day to do technical illustration. One thing still frustrates me to no end though: the snapping behavior. I know this is a hotbutton issue, so I've tried to document my request with pictures and comparisons to illustrator, which I think gets this behavior right (from a technical illustration perspective).
http://web.mit.edu/jonas/www/ohsnap/ohsnap.shtml
I try and outline some of the things that could stand improvement. I would love to hack on this myself but I think it would take forever for me to grok the text-handling code. Does inkscape have any sort of feature/bug bounty program? I'll gladly chip in some cash or free beer :)
Thanks again for making such a great product, I really hope we can reach agreement on how to snap...
Thanks again, ...Eric
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:05:29 -0500, Eric Jonas <jonas@...589...> wrote:
Thanks, that's helpful. I was waiting for Carl to fix the numerous snapping issues (as he did most of our snapping code), but he seems to be gone, so I'll probably have to tackle this myself.
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:21:34 -0400, bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> wrote:
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:05:29 -0500, Eric Jonas <jonas@...589...> wrote:
As a first step, I just added visualizing the anchor point of the first character of a text object as a small square mark, shown when it is selected. It's just a mark so far, later I'll add snapping, aligning and scaling relative to it.
Having read your page, I must say I disagree about bbox snapping. I often need it, and at other times I need node snapping. That's why in Inkscape you can choose which of them (or both) to use. If Illustrator does not have bbox snapping, it's not our problem, it's an Illustrator problem :)
Richard: could you please review the small change I did to characterAnchorPoint for it to not crash on empty text, as well as try to figure out why it does not work for text-on-path.
often need it, and at other times I need node snapping. That's why in Inkscape you can choose which of them (or both) to use. If Illustrator does not have bbox snapping, it's not our problem, it's an Illustrator problem :)
You're completely right; and I find a lot of things that Inkscape does differently from illustrator to be far superior. I was actually worried people might think I was saying "I want an illustrator clone, whine whine whine!" :)
Is there any chace, to address the multiple-objects convex-hull problem, I could get you to apply patch 1054639? It seems to be living in patch limbo, as it has since march :)
...Eric
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:05:09 -0500, Eric Jonas <jonas@...589...> wrote:
Is there any chace, to address the multiple-objects convex-hull problem, I could get you to apply patch 1054639? It seems to be living in patch limbo, as it has since march :)
Well, since no one seems to be working on that, looks like I'll need to have a look. However it seems to me that currently snapping internal points is simply broken; for example I see that an ellipse returns its center as snappoint, but it does not snap an ellipse on the center (at least in my testing). So I think I need to fix this first. (Of course if you can figure this out, your help will be much appreciated, I promise your patches won't be delayed :)
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:59:28 -0400, bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> wrote:
Well, since no one seems to be working on that, looks like I'll need to have a look. However it seems to me that currently snapping internal points is simply broken; for example I see that an ellipse returns its center as snappoint, but it does not snap an ellipse on the center (at least in my testing).
Oops, I didn't realize that it is governed by the same pref setting as the snapping of nodes. So it actually works. Nice. I will now test your patch.
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