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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0009100 | Scribus | Usability | public | 2010-05-11 21:32 | 2016-04-28 15:08 |
| Reporter | alexandre | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 1.5.0 | ||||
| Summary | 0009100: Paths simplification | ||||
| Description | The Freehand Drawing tool produces way too many nodes by default. The only way to remove them is to manually select nodes and delete, which means that with the existing Node editing tool one has to switch to Node Removal node and click every single node that is not required. This is a tedious work that is not welcome. There are two ways to get this fixed, and they can co-exist like in e.g. Inkscape. 1. Implement tool's option to make automatic smoothing of created Bezier path *during* drawing. > Franz replies: "Have you tried pressing the CTRL key during drawing of the line? This enables an automatic smoothing of the final curve." 0009100:0023919 2. Implement a path simplification function to remove extra nodes while preserving shape of an object. Logic for both ways can be borrowed from Inkscape. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Patch | No | ||||
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Please provide programmers or patches for these requests.. we have no spare resources. |
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my usual answer is: don't use the freehand tool... can you provide a use case which needs the freehand tool in scribus? (i mean: a use case where it's not practical to start inkscape, do the work there and import it into scribus afterwards) |
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My dear ale, please try to read critically what you've just written. What you are saying basically boils down to "You are suggesting to improve a tool that nobody needs anyway". I know I'm probably harsh and I'm sure as hell I'm perfectionist of a kind very few people can stand, but if there is a tool, then it should Just Work and not make life difficult. Seriously, guys, you have LGM coming with Peter Sikking available to talk to. He lives in Europe just like most of you do. Invite him to work with you. He does magic. So can you, if you just for a little while focus on things that matter. |
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Have you tried pressing the CTRL key during drawing of the line? This enables an automatic smoothing of the final curve. |
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alexandre, i think that you are misinterpreting my answers in here. what i want to tell you is that, imo, there is a difference between scribus supporting a feature for importing structures from vector files and scribus letting you comfortably edit those structures. when a new feature is implemented for importing, i think it's a good idea to also implement some basic way to tweak them in scribus, too. but i'm fully comfortable with the idea that those tools are very basic in their ergonomics. personally, i see several places where the ergonomics of scribus need improvements, but i really wonder if the free hand tool is one of them. back to the topic of this feature request. personally (2), i'm comfortable with the idea of removing the freehand tool from scribus to solve the problem: is there any use for it? personally (3), if we really want to keep it, we could keep it only in the form which is currently activated by pressing the ctrl key. would this solve the problem? |
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Please excuse simple reporter for interfering developers discussion. We should not forget what is basic purpose of DTP applications - to make up TEXT pages. Graphic design - other world. So any advanced feature are important only until it's connected with text. If paths can be text paths it must work perfectly. If they are implemented as decorative elements they should be edited in their native apps and be correctly importable. That position would help us to keep Scribus simple yet powerful. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2010-05-11 21:32 | alexandre | New Issue | |
| 2010-05-11 22:01 | cbradney | Note Added: 0023904 | |
| 2010-05-12 14:11 | ale | Note Added: 0023910 | |
| 2010-05-12 17:16 | alexandre | Note Added: 0023913 | |
| 2010-05-12 20:22 | fschmid | Note Added: 0023919 | |
| 2010-05-12 21:23 | ale | Note Added: 0023921 | |
| 2010-05-12 21:23 | ale | Note Edited: 0023921 | |
| 2010-05-12 21:24 | ale | Note Edited: 0023921 | |
| 2010-05-13 16:22 | subeditor | Note Added: 0023927 | |
| 2016-04-28 15:08 | Kunda | Patch | => No |
| 2016-04-28 15:08 | Kunda | Description Updated |
