Why make things difficult?

[massimo sandal]

Have you read Inkscape's tutorials and documentation?

I am quite baffled by your difficulties because Inkscape is almost
*trivial* to use. I have seen kids using it productively without help.
Perhaps you simply need to read a bit to figure out the basics.
On 2 Nov 2011 23:19, "Kipton Moravec" <kip at kdream.com> wrote:

> I need to something similar to Adobe Illustrator. To do a quick drawing
> for a control panel.
>
> I looked at Open Office Drawing. It does not let me make things a
> certain size. I need a circle exactly a certain dimension " It is all
> free hand.
>
> So I switched to Inkscape which has to be the least intuitive drawing
> program I have seen. I have not been able to figure out how to draw
> lines yet, but discovered if I draw boxes I can set the position x and y
> and the height and width to the 0.001" which I need.
>
> Now I have to draw a triangle symbol for a membrane switch label (for
> right or left, up or down) I have been working on it for the past 30
> minutes and can not get it to look right.
>
> The documentation says "to play with them at your leisure".  That dies
> not seem like a very productive tool if it is so complicated you can't
> figure it out.
>
> Sometimes programmers try to get too clever. And they don't think about
> people that just need to get the job done.
>
> Just give me a polygon that I can grab each corner and move it where I
> want it. Don't try to let me discover how to do it with two controls
> that disappear if you accidentally deselect the object. Then you have to
> delete and start all over.
>
> Now I have to look for another program that lets me draw simple shapes
> at specific sizes and lets me place them at specific places.
>
> :(
>
> Kip
>
>
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