Pattern along Path on perfect Circle results in deformed circle

[Reinhard Riedl]

I made a Square and used Pattern along Path on a perfect Circle with Option repeat.
As you can see in the Example attached, the resulting Circle is slightly deformed. The red Circles are perfect Circles which have some Spacing to the generated Circle using Pattern along Path.

[TylerDurden (8thrule)]

I'd try using a circular path with eight nodes for the PaP... 4 bezier nodes is not very accurate.

TD

[TylerDurden (8thrule)]

PS: An 8 sided polygon converted to path, with nodes set to smooth works well.

[Reinhard Riedl (waybackrider)]

Thanks Tyler, great Tip, works perfectly!
Just noticed simply adding Pattern along Path already deforms the circle without pasting/linking anything.

[Reinhard Riedl (waybackrider)]

The Deformation is because the Circle only has 4 Nodes, adding 4 further Nodes to the Circle resolves the Problem.

[Nathan Lee (nathan.lee)]

Hi - thanks for reporting this bug, as part of the bug migration to GitLab, I've closed this issue here. You can still track the issue at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/1389

Please feel free to file new bugs about the issues you're seeing at http://inkscape.org/report