Re:Inkscape launches version 1.3 with a focus on organizing ...
by wtarreau on Monday July 24, 2023 @08:29AM
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I'll try it. For me the best experience used to be with 0.92 and since then it has significantly degraded, with counter-intuitive things happening all the time in the UI. One of the operations I find the most complicated is to place circles at specific positions. I only know how to adjust their size and left position but as I'm using inkscape to design drill positions, it's a real pain for me to have to mentally subtract the radius and the line width. And in general, I find everything related to movements, alignments and such particularly difficult, to the point that generally you have to find a video showing a trick to proceed efficiently.
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Re:Inkscape launches version 1.3 with a focus on organizing ...
by planede on Monday July 24, 2023 @08:36AM
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You can adjust the radius of a circle when the circle tool is selected. You can also place circles centered around a specific point by holding down shift while drawing them.
Re:Inkscape launches version 1.3 with a focus on organizing ...
by wtarreau on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @11:24PM
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Thanks, that's useful! However that's one main issue with this tool, it's really oriented towards the UI itself. You're bounded by your mouse (or worse, touchpad) resolution to place the center and often in addition to wasting a lot of time, it's inaccurate. The convenient approach would be to place an approximate circle, then edit the center and radius and enter values by hand.