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

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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