microUgly said:
This is exactly what I was looking for, but the flow effect can be a little difficult to predict.
Where you click in a specific region effects where the fill will flow. With the same setting sometimes it will flow into more areas than other times. Sometimes "Small" flows further than "None".
Can you send me an example .svg file that exhibits this behavior, and tell me which areas you're trying to fill?
Also, whilst I'm here, and I apologise if this is an issue that has already been explained, but is it possible for the fill tool to ignore the viewport and apply to an entire drawing at 1:1 ratio? I expect if it was that's the way it would work already, but I had to ask.
The biggest issue with rendering the whole drawing is memory & CPU usage, since a copy of the current drawing (viewport-bound or otherwise) needs to be rendered to memory before the fill can be calculated. I want to avoid having a different operating mode for the fill tool if I can help it, as well. For your larger areas, have you tried using [Shift]-click to both fill in the visible areas and to join the resulting paths? This would work at any zoom level, including 1:1.
Thanks,
John