on-screen guide lines.

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, John R. Culleton wrote:

> In some other applications (e.g., Scribus) it is possible to create guide 
> lines 
> which help in the placement of objects. For example for
> a book cover image the actual dimensions (with necessary bleed)
> may be 1/8 inch larger all around than the actual dimensions of
> the finished book. The guide lines, which appear on screen and are
> stored with the image but do not appear in the final pdf or tiff
> output, can be pulled from the margins and placed exactly with
> respect to the overall image size. 
> 
> Lacking this facility it is I suppose feasible to create a
> transparent template image consisting of nothing but the guides, and add it as
> the top layer. Then when saving the final image that layer could be
> disabled or deleted. 

We used to have guides in Krita, but the implementation was quite unusable.
With KOffice 1.5, a KOffice-wide guides implementation was created, a very
cool one, with autosnapping features. We wanted to integrate that in Krita,
but there were two problems: Krita hasn't got the notion of "page" and nobody
had time, since the author of the guides, Casper Boemann, was very, very busy
trying to get the transform tool right.

Boudewijn