Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Integer degrees in Draw

Hi all,

it is bug
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60120

kind regards
Regina

Dan Lewis schrieb:
> On 05/03/2013 08:56 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
> > Le 03/05/13 13:14, Dan Lewis a écrit :
> >
> > >       It is a feature that has been introduced in 4.0. 3.6.6 permits you
> > > to set the degree angle for a line to 100th of a degree (English
> > > system). 4.0.2 and 4.0.3 both limit the degree angle to integers. If you
> > > are going to use 4.0.2, you will have to use these degree Intergers: 0
> > > 14   29   43   57    71 and 86. Not as exact as you may want but the
> > > accuracy is less that 0.5 degrees.
> > I'd call that a regression over being able to specify to 1/100th of a
> > degree...
> >
> > Dan, any idea how/why that happened ? Was there something wrong with the
> > previous way ? Just trying to understand the rationale behind the change.
> >
> >
> > Alex
>       No, I'm clueless. My only guess was this: with 360 degrees in a
> circle, the thinking was that this is accurate enough for the size of
> Draw figures.
>      But if someone wants to draw a line a given angle with a high
> degree of accuracy, it can still be done if he wants to use some
> trigonometry. Use the Position and Size dialog. Instead of changing the
> angle for the line, calculate what the positions of the two end points
> from the line need to be to achieve the angle desired.
>
> --Dan


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