Inner/outer/center stroke placement
Bug #170401 reported by
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This bug affects 6 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Inkscape |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Currently, it appears that the stroke of an object is
centered on the object's edge, so that a 2 unit stroke
will increase the width of an object by two units --
half the stroke on the left, and half on the right.
It would be nice if you could specify that the stroke
was to appear inside or outside the object. This would
allow an object to be accurately sized (whether it's
inner or outer dimensions) and then have it's stroke
altered without affecting the overall dimensions.
It can be quite tricky to line objects up when you have
to take into account the width of the lines: the math
is always out by a couple of units here or there...
Thanks!
It might be nice but SVG does not allow that so we cannot do
it. You can fake it by creating a separate "stroke" object
and moving it.
As for lining up, at least for grid snapping we have both
fill edge and stroke edge snapping to grid which gives you
some flexibility.