Comment 21 for bug 290870

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On 29/12/2012 16:23, zoqaeski wrote:
> (…) It also effects the entire document: once one path starts
> misbehaving, they ALL do. (…)

On 29/12/2012 19:33, ~suv wrote:
>> The paths that it seems to forcing look similar to the results
>> of the auto-smooth nodes.
>
> Do you have the spiro path effect applied to that path (maybe
> unintentionally)? A screenshot doesn't really allow to investigate…

Note that the 'Spiro splines' path effect could even have been applied to the parent group (or even a layer, if the layer group was selected via XML Editor), which could explain why existing paths suddenly behave differently. Or maybe you are referring to newly drawn paths recently, or just in the current editing session), which would indicate that you inadvertently switched the drawing mode for the pencil and/or pen tool to use Spiro splines instead of regular bezier curves.

Besides checking whether the path has a path effect applied (the message in the status bar when selecting the path with the select tool will tell you), it is always helpful to turn on the path outlines in the node tool when trying to understand what's happening: if a Spiro path effect is active for that path, you will notice that the path outline is following the changed handles as expected, but the actually rendered path itself is only determined by the node type(s) (or rather whether the two extract handles are colinear or not).
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