Ability to set coordinate origin (movable rulers)
Vibrated from https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170347 from 2004-07-22 to 2016-04-02
and the very similar https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1083472 from 2012-11-27
Summary:
Inkscape doesn't allow setting the zero coordinate of a document (essentially a request to have a movable ruler).
Original Issue (edited):
When I am doing technical drawings in Coreldraw I often need/want to be quite precise with the coordinates. It is often easier to have the origin in the middle of the page, so this is the first change I make. Then I draw objects and specify the sizes and positions precisely using the coordinate entry thing on the toolbar.
However, with Inkscape, if I set the origin to the middle of the page and then draw (say) a circle and set the X and Y coordinates to (0,0), it appears in the bottom left hand corner rather than in the middle of the page. Surely this is a bug? It is bizarre to say the least to type the X and Y coordinates at (0,0) and to have the object at a position (according to the rulers at the top and side of the page) of (-105,-148.5).
Additional Information/Comments:
Buliabyak-users (buliabyak-users) wrote...
You can't set the coordinate origin at all, currently. It's always in the corner.
Horkana-users (horkana-users) wrote...
closed another reports as a duplicate of this one ("Movable rulers")
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604309&aid=1264641&group_id=93438
Tom Davidson (tjd-mit) wrote...
In 0.45, you could set the grid origin, and that would also move the ruler origin. That behavior was removed in 0.46 because you can now have more than one grid (so which one would control the ruler?), and also because that old behavior was buggy (it didn't update the actual co-ordinates of objects.
- The majority of the other commenters are in agreement with adding this feature request.
Version Info:
- Inkscape Version: originally 0.46.x (I'm assuming)
- Operating System: Windows (I'm assuming from the CorelDraw reference)
- Operating System version: n/a