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Object with a small degree of rotation wants to 'snap' back to original position.

Asked by Theo Ellis

In trying to rotate objects just a few degrees, the objects want to jump or snap back to their original position. SNAP is turned OFF. This seems to happen with vector objects and with imported bitmap objects. If I rotate the object a larger amount, it will stay but if I try to 'tweak' it to where I want it, it jumps back.
What is happening?

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su_v (suv-lp) said : 		#1

Did you keep 'Ctrl' pressed while rotating? This enables 'constrained' mode for rotation, i.e. the rotation "snaps" to multiples of the rotation step angle as set in 'Inkscape Preferences > Steps' (default is 15°).

<http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Transforms.html#Transforms-Mouse-SRS>

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Theo Ellis (tellis55) said : 		#2

CTRL was not pressed during the rotation. Also - I had already changed the rotation step angle to 1° in the Global Preferences. I am using Inkscape 0.47 r22583 dated Nov. 21, 2009. Do I need to upgrade? Is an upgrade available?

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su_v (suv-lp) said : 		#3

> I am using Inkscape 0.47 r22583 dated Nov. 21, 2009.
> Do I need to upgrade? Is an upgrade available?

The current stable release version is Inkscape 0.48.1. The Inkscape project does not offer incremental upgrades: on Windows and Mac OS X you download and install the new package from <http://inkscape.org>, on linux, it's up to the distributor to provide new versions or updates via package manager. Which OS/platform are you working on?

Not sure about the unintentional 'snapping' while rotating - could you share a file with objects which expose this behavior to allow testing with other versions/platforms? And describe in detail how you rotate the object in the example file?

[1] Unfortunately the 'Answers' section of launchpad doesn't allow attachments - you could use a free image hosting service like <http://imgh.us> which accepts and serves SVG files.

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