My point was slightly different. I was not telling about the angle between a line and the next on the polygon, but I meant to force the slope of the straight line tool. <br><br>If you just want to underline a text the only feature needed is to force a line to be horizontal, that's it. Another use-case is when you want to single out a paragraph and you mean to do this with a straight vertical line beside the paragraph. In this case again one only needs to draw an exactly vertical line.
<br><br>In summary the modifier should be able to force the drawn line end-points to have either same X coordinate or either Y coordinate.<br><br>However, what you describe seems beautiful as well. I think this could be very useful to build better-looking polygons with the polygon tool.
<br>My mind about how to make polygon drawing better is that "Configure" should be the keyword. I mean that the Inkscape solution is the best, although I understand that building a flexible interface
is harder. Otherwise if
you need a fixed angle I think 90° is the best (at least one can build good-looking square and rectangular shapes). <br>
<br>Ciao<br>Roberto<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/1/12, Pino Toscano <<a href="mailto:toscano.pino@tiscali.it">toscano.pino@tiscali.it</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>> It would be nice if the "straight line" tool could be forced to produce<br>> vertical or horizontal lines. following many CAD and vector drawing<br>> software this could be switched on by the user pushing some modificator
<br>> like maiusc of ctrl or whatever the author like more.<br><br>The idea is really nice, thanks for reporting the wish (so we won't forget!).<br><br>What leave me in doubt is the choice of the snapping angles, and the modifier
<br>used. Some graphics applications I just opened:<br><br>- kolourpaint: 45° with Shift, 30° with Ctrl<br>- krita: 90° with Shift<br>- inkscape: default 15° [configurable to 1, 2, 3, 6, 7.5, 10, 15, 30, 45, 60,<br>90] with Ctrl
<br>- scribus: 15° with Ctrl<br><br>almost all seem to use Ctrl as modifier, but they have different ranges for<br>the snapped angles.<br>Any ideas about this?<br><br>--<br>Pino Toscano<br><br>_______________________________________________
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