Guides as special class of objects
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Inkscape |
New
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
FEATURE REQUEST
Guides should be a special class of object, on which most of the operations on drawing objects can also be performed:
@ Change colour, stroke width, and stroke pattern on individual guides
@ Option for short guides, i.e. need not necessarily extend to/beyond page margins
@ Group guides with each other (but not with drawing objects)
@ Position guides accurately by entering x and y coordinates for vertical and horizontal guides
@ Angle guides for drawing orthogonal, isometric, and perspective drawings
@ Option to allow guides to be included in printouts and PDF outputs (default: excluded)
@ Duplicate/copy guides at specified centres
@ Draw guides like Bezier curves
@ Snap text and other objects to curve guides, either by centres or edges, or in the case of text, also baseline, x-height line, caps line, ascenders line, or descenders line
No doubt Samuel Chase will be able to think of other aspects of drawing objects which guides could also have during his Google Summer of Code!
Regards,
Hedley
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Hedley Finger
28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia
Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558
Email. "Hedley Finger" <email address hidden>
| tags: | removed: angle bezier colour coordinates curves grouping location objects pattern position rotate snap stroke width |
| Changed in inkscape: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| su_v (suv-lp) wrote | #1 |
| su_v (suv-lp) wrote | #2 |
| su_v (suv-lp) wrote | #3 |
| Alain (tropicalrambler) wrote | #4 |
Note: several of the requested features already exist with the current implementation of guides:
- Position guides numerically
- Angled guides
- Snapping
(Many of the other feature requests have already been filed separately in the bug tracker.)