Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 35817
Drawing bezier curve easily...
Last modified: 2017-01-26 19:09:43 UTC
Hello, I write you because I think the user interface for drawing bezier curve is not very easy to understand (and not very flexible too) I think you should be inspired by InkScape. With InkScape, when drawing, tangents vectors are shown. Moreover with InkScape, the 2 tangents vectors at a point can be on a different line. (it could be usefull for tangents to be on a different line In fact, for this problem, right click on tangents should set property to - the 2 vectors are on the same line (as now) or - the 2 vectors are symetrics (point symetry) or - the 2 vectors are independant each other Thanks
This is more an enhancement... Reassinged to Bettina.
Could you explain me why 1 year later this enhancement is still unconfirmed ?
I believe that the Bezier curve tool at the moment is working in reverse. In fact, the documentation agrees with me! The only place where the Bezier curve is adequately described states that, after the initial click and drag to start the curve, it is continued by further clicking and dragging in the direction you want to go. However, this is not actually the case. You actually need to click and drag *back* towards where you have come from before continuing in the direction you want to go. This is anything but intuitive and greatly disrupts the natural progression of drawing a smooth curve thereby making the feature very difficult to use. It seems that the program is losing users because of this unfriendly method. I think that once this feature is implemented correctly, people will find the tool to be much more friendly and understandable.
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=25459 http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=28089 http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=15370 Threads from the duplicate issue 66676
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".
Three open issues for this: Issue 66676 Issue 35817 Issue 23289
keep only one of them *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 23289 ***