Hi everyone,
I'm an Inkscape user for years now and I usually find the answers I need by Googling. But this time, I'm out of luck, so here I come:
When you apply a rotation to a group, Inkscape is smart enough to apply the inverse transformation when you create a rectangle or text inside that group, so the newly created object remains parallel to the edges of the page.
But sometimes this behavior is not desirable. So is there a way to disable that behavior to create objects in such a way the outer group transformation will be applied to them?
For now, the only workaround I found was to create the object as usual, then open the XML editor to remove the inverse transformation matrix added to them.
As an example, in the attached screenshot, I'm "inside" a group having the following transformation: `matrix(0.96592583,-0.25881905,0.25881905,0.96592583,635.72819,829.6563)` (a rotation and a translation). Inside that group, if I create a text, Inkscape attach the inverse rotation to it: `matrix(0.96592582,0.25881905,-0.25881905,0.96592582,0,0)` so the text baseline remains parallel with the page edges (image 1). If I want my text to be parallel with the small rects inside the group, I have to remove that extra transformation (image 2). After having removed the transformation matrix, I also need to adjust the newly created object's position since it moved. All that makes that workflow quite clumsy.
Any suggestion for a more straightforward workflow?
