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Grid Filter: add more detailed information about intersection option

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Grid Filter: add more detailed information about intersection option Ry?Ta SimaMoto 04 Mar 13:19
  Grid Filter: add more detailed information about intersection option Ulf-D. Ehlert 09 Mar 20:34
Ry?Ta SimaMoto
2010-03-04 13:19:18 UTC (over 15 years ago)

Grid Filter: add more detailed information about intersection option

Hi,

At /Filters/Render/Grid... filter, three terms of "Width", "Spacing", and "Offset" are not meaningful for the complicated intersection feature than for the grid lines.

I send a patch file on the Bugzilla #611795. This patch adds two sample images to the document. I hope these images explain effects given by the three intersection options.

Source files in XCF are also available at http://www.geocities.jp/ss2pxd1c/snapshots/render-grid-detail1.xcf.gz and
http://www.geocities.jp/ss2pxd1c/snapshots/render-grid-detail2.xcf.gz

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Ulf-D. Ehlert
2010-03-09 20:34:33 UTC (over 15 years ago)

Grid Filter: add more detailed information about intersection option

Ry?Ta SimaMoto (Thursday, 04. March 2010)

At /Filters/Render/Grid... filter, three terms of "Width", "Spacing", and "Offset" are not meaningful for the complicated intersection feature than for the grid lines.

I send a patch file on the Bugzilla #611795. This patch adds two sample images to the document. I hope these images explain effects given by the three intersection options.

Yes, it looks like the intersection could be explained more detailed. But IMHO your images look a bit too complicate to me (with my too little brain?), especially the second one. My experience is that sometimes the meaning of an option is easier to recognize if you provide example images with a few different values -- e.g. like the attached images for the intersection offset.

Maybe we can combine the two approaches? (... unless I'm totally wrong, of course.)

Source files in XCF are also available at

Good idea, but maybe we don't need source files:

If possible we should avoid images with text that we'd have to translate, otherwise we had to provide localized images as well, which means more work and more disk space. The alternative is to use e.g. single letters, numbers, or symbols (like arrows) of different colors (but not too many colors) if necessary, and to move the translatable text to the caption or a para.

Bye, Ulf