If you have an object that actually has a transformation matrix, and all you've ever done with the object was to rotate it, and you delete the transformation matrix in the XML editor, you reset the rotation.
There's a setting in the preferences that allows to keep the transformation matrix for paths (relative), or to save optimized paths (optimized for the length of text in the SVG source code), or to always save the new node positions (absolute) (Edit -> Preferences -> SVG-Output -> Path Data) for other objects (groups, circles, rectangles), (some) transformations can only ever be saved in a transformation matrix, as they require the object to have it's own coordinate system - and can't be indicated by just changing the position of a node, or corner coordinate, or center and radius. for paths, a transformation (rotation, scaling, skewing) can be saved in a transformation matrix OR just as the new node positions (so it's lost) There are different ways an object's transformation can be saved in Inkscape: I can come close using my eyes, probably like 0.5-1 degrees error margin, but I won't be able to get exactly back to 0 degrees just using my eyes when rotating.Īh well, maybe I should make my own addon to fix this, right? Perhaps it's time to sift through the xml. I can't figure out how I could use the Transform > Rotate function to rotate the object back to it's original angle. And you can't see the current angle either.
Also the Transform > Rotate function does the same, it adds/detracts whatever degree value you input but you can't set the final degrees you want the object to be at. Instead it just shows how many degrees you will be adding/detracting from the current angle (and that current angle is unknown). Right now we are not shown the current angle, we are only being shown how many degrees we rotate it, not the previous, current or resulting angle.īrynn, correct me if I'm wrong, but when you say that Inkscape shows the angle, it doesn't show the objects angle. Input 0 degrees and the object will be shown a 0 degrees (0 degrees being the original angle from when the object was created). Wow, why is it so complicated? I'm thinking this: Why doesn't Inkscape just remember the original angle, from object creation, as 0 degrees, and then always show the current angle relative to this original 0 degrees angle? It could be as simple as that.Īnd then it could even be a input box: input 5 degrees and the object is shown at 5 degrees.
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