Re: Duplication Offset (Was: TODO list)

[Antoon Pardon]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 05:04:01PM +0100, Bernhard Herzog wrote:
> 
> That the command doesn't do the translation at the moment was
> deliberately done so that we could discuss whether we need it.  I for
> one practically never use it.  I always have the offset set to (0, 0).
> What I would probably use is a transformation dialog that allows me to
> apply precise transformations to the selected objects with the option to
> duplicate the objects before the transformation.  That kind of feature
> would obviously include the current duplication offset feature.  One
> disadvantage of not moving the duplicated objects is that new users may
> find the command confusing because the drawing looks the same afterwards.
> 

One thing I found usefull in the old Mac McDraw program was that if you
duplicated an object followed by a move, the offset of this move was
remembered if you then duplicated the duplicate. This made it easy to
make a colum, row or even a table of duplicated objects.

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Antoon Pardon