OK I am old...73 in 2 days. I hate Adobe for the catch and kill of Pagemaker and Freehand. I don't like Tim Cook for thinking lawyers were the best option in Apple's Flexgate error.
Now, I do a lot of symetrical drawings.
I want my top ruler to be centered on Page and my side ruler the same.
so X 0 + Y 0 = Page center whether in A4 protrait or landscape.
I've hunted around and do not see this as a choice
I am doing this in Ventura on a 2017 15" top-of-the-forking line Flexgate MacBook Pro <now running in clamshell through an LG 27" <should be 60hz on my 2017 but can only manage 30hz and IS 60hz on my 2011 running high Sierra <Tim Cook's New Apple Policy "Let us give you less for more." (I do not mind Apple's prices in general).
Settings does not hold any Ruler adjustment I can see.
Altering the view box just set the whole page off.
I absolutely love this program and each iteration has always impressed me.
The SVG standard, which Inkscape follows, specifies that (0,0) is the top left corner of your page and all else is calculated from this origin. There's no setting to move the rulers from here. All I can suggest is that you move your drawing centreline to x=0 as you work.
In the Document Properties dialog, the page color and boundary can be set to match the canvas rendering it invisible. Then, a rectangle object can be created with its center on the origin as a pretend page. The rectangle object can be locked so that it will not be disturbed by further work.
OK I loved the whole "Last Century" reference. I often think I am a very analog brain in a digital world.
ROTFLMAO
So my daughter went to Stanford on a 100% academic scholarship, stolen from Harvard and Yale.
I sent her a written business plan for her to critique, 35 pages, please understand the SBA hired me under a special contract to help 200+ women start businesses during the height of the bra burning era. I have also started 8 of my own and 2 non-profits. So I do not consider myself an amateur.
Her entire reply to my 35 page written business plan was, “Papa, a Written Business Plan how Last Century!”
When she launched her own company, she discovered that you need a fucking map of the business’s aims, goals, customers, financials, blah blah blah and 35 pages is considered fairly tight.
They still use steering wheels in cars and while not all are round they all move around a central pivot point. This concept is from the 1800s, and really if you look at Da Vinci’s drawings…
I can only hope the Inkscape team will think that some of the shit old people did back in the old days of the last century has a value.
I can do math in my head at levels few can do, but when I am in Visual Brain Mode I do not want words or formulas to interfere with my visual creative pattern construction, I’d like to be able to say point A is -X10, -Y20 and Point B is +X10, +Y20
Hope my explanation is lucid and cogent and you have The Power to Affect the Next Iteration to include valuable ideas from the Last Century
While I understand the explanation of SVG standards, I would think standards should never be set in stone.
The svg standard (or recommendation) is anything but static... much to the frustrations of Inkscape developers (maybe) and certainly the users.
For the interface, Inkscape recently implemented the ability for users to place the Y origin at the upper left or lower left of the page, to accommodate users familiar with print as well as users familiar with electronic media. SVG was developed firstly for web deployment, which is why the standards are governed by the W3C.
Arbitrary location of the origin has been requested for some time... if it were simple, it probably would have been done by now.
Rulers in other graphics applications can easily be divorced from the the Page are of the document because they are not natively editing the SVG like Inkscape does.
One can compose/edit with the suggestion in comment #4, but when sending out (exporting, printing, etc.) one should save a copy for further editing and reset the page origin to the corner of the artwork.
Beginners' Questions Ruler centered on Page
Inkscape.org
OK I am old...73 in 2 days. I hate Adobe for the catch and kill of Pagemaker and Freehand. I don't like Tim Cook for thinking lawyers were the best option in Apple's Flexgate error.
I am doing this in Ventura on a 2017 15" top-of-the-forking line Flexgate MacBook Pro <now running in clamshell through an LG 27" <should be 60hz on my 2017 but can only manage 30hz and IS 60hz on my 2011 running high Sierra <Tim Cook's New Apple Policy "Let us give you less for more." (I do not mind Apple's prices in general).
Settings does not hold any Ruler adjustment I can see.
Altering the view box just set the whole page off.
I absolutely love this program and each iteration has always impressed me.
Am I missing something?
Thanks in Advance,
Doc
The SVG standard, which Inkscape follows, specifies that (0,0) is the top left corner of your page and all else is calculated from this origin. There's no setting to move the rulers from here. All I can suggest is that you move your drawing centreline to x=0 as you work.
You can have 0,0 either at top or bottom left page corner via Preferences, but not freely adjustable as per Freehand in the eighties last century.
In the Document Properties dialog, the page color and boundary can be set to match the canvas rendering it invisible. Then, a rectangle object can be created with its center on the origin as a pretend page. The rectangle object can be locked so that it will not be disturbed by further work.
OK I loved the whole "Last Century" reference. I often think I am a very analog brain in a digital world.
ROTFLMAO
So my daughter went to Stanford on a 100% academic scholarship, stolen from Harvard and Yale.
I sent her a written business plan for her to critique, 35 pages, please understand the SBA hired me under a special contract to help 200+ women start businesses during the height of the bra burning era. I have also started 8 of my own and 2 non-profits. So I do not consider myself an amateur.
Her entire reply to my 35 page written business plan was, “Papa, a Written Business Plan how Last Century!”
When she launched her own company, she discovered that you need a fucking map of the business’s aims, goals, customers, financials, blah blah blah and 35 pages is considered fairly tight.
They still use steering wheels in cars and while not all are round they all move around a central pivot point. This concept is from the 1800s, and really if you look at Da Vinci’s drawings…
I can only hope the Inkscape team will think that some of the shit old people did back in the old days of the last century has a value.
I can do math in my head at levels few can do, but when I am in Visual Brain Mode I do not want words or formulas to interfere with my visual creative pattern construction, I’d like to be able to say point A is -X10, -Y20 and Point B is +X10, +Y20
Hope my explanation is lucid and cogent and you have The Power to Affect the Next Iteration to include valuable ideas from the Last Century
While I understand the explanation of SVG standards, I would think standards should never be set in stone.
Thanks for the insights.
Doc
Inkscape and Boxy SVG (both following the SVG standard) show this SVG code differently on their rulers.
<svg viewBox="-25 -25 50 50" width="50mm" height="50mm" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><circle r="25"/>
</svg>
The svg standard (or recommendation) is anything but static... much to the frustrations of Inkscape developers (maybe) and certainly the users.
For the interface, Inkscape recently implemented the ability for users to place the Y origin at the upper left or lower left of the page, to accommodate users familiar with print as well as users familiar with electronic media. SVG was developed firstly for web deployment, which is why the standards are governed by the W3C.
Arbitrary location of the origin has been requested for some time... if it were simple, it probably would have been done by now.
Rulers in other graphics applications can easily be divorced from the the Page are of the document because they are not natively editing the SVG like Inkscape does.
One can compose/edit with the suggestion in comment #4, but when sending out (exporting, printing, etc.) one should save a copy for further editing and reset the page origin to the corner of the artwork.