Random Inkscape Tip
I have found myself not liking the default grid snapping behavior of recent Inkscape builds. When you have objects with a stroke, the stroke isn’t considered in the snapping, so for a 1px stroke, you’d get exactly the opposite what you might need. Inkscape would snap to the middle of the stroke, leaving your outline fuzzy.
The reason for this is the that node snapping is enabled. What you need is object bounding box snapping. Good bye fuzziness.
October 19th, 2007 at 10:18 am
That’s always been my main annoyance when using Inkscape. I had no idea there was an option.
October 19th, 2007 at 10:44 am
Thanks for this, coming from using Fireworks for most mockups/artwork, this was one of the hardest things to get used to when I switched to Inkscape.
October 19th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
THANKS! This has been annoying me too, especially when doing icons.
October 19th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Awesome tip! Thanks dude!
October 19th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
WOW! Okay, that’s very good to know! Thanks!
(Sure beats nudging everything into the grid by manually changing the values in the bar.)
October 19th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Wow, I had no idea Inkscape could do this.
Any suggestions for how to make it not-impossible to find? I can see how both ways would be desirable, but there’s obviously something wrong if it’s hidden so even hardcore Inkscape users don’t know it exists!
October 25th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
One more thing, I maybe going mad here, but is that a docked Properties window? I didn’t know that was possible, so the obvious question is how did you do that
?
October 25th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Neil, yes Inkscape trunk allows to dock the floating palettes. just dragging it by its label onto the main window should work. It’s not all dandy yet though, a lot of times you’ll end up moving slider instead of objects on the canvas (focus issues).
October 27th, 2007 at 12:35 am
Oh excellent, I’ll be sure to try this out. Thanks!