a similar problem is encountered when manually entering the coordinates of a Bezier path point using the gui:
- running Windows XP, Inkscape rev 13849
- start from the A4 template: mm as default unit;
- use the Bezier tool, shift F6, to manually draw a single straight line
- click on the Node tool, F2, and click on a node so that it is editable at the top spinboxes:
- set the coordinates of one node to be some integer values like (0,0)
- set the other node coordinates to be some integer values like (10,10)
- save as node_1010.svg, attached here
- interrogate the file to get the path: we find
d="m 0,297.00001 9.9999998,-10"
this contains two round-off errors, both in 297.00001 and 9.9999998
a similar problem is encountered when manually entering the coordinates of a Bezier path point using the gui:
- running Windows XP, Inkscape rev 13849
- start from the A4 template: mm as default unit;
- use the Bezier tool, shift F6, to manually draw a single straight line
- click on the Node tool, F2, and click on a node so that it is editable at the top spinboxes:
- set the coordinates of one node to be some integer values like (0,0)
- set the other node coordinates to be some integer values like (10,10)
- save as node_1010.svg, attached here
- interrogate the file to get the path: we find
d="m 0,297.00001 9.9999998,-10"
this contains two round-off errors, both in 297.00001 and 9.9999998