On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Alvin Penner <penner@...1856...> wrote:
- does the node copy/pasting currently exist or is it planned for the
future? I just tried it and couldn't seem to get it to work, I just got a new object, not an edited version of an existing object.
Like I said, it's a long-standing feature request. It's not implemented yet.
Currently the existing 'Edit | Paste Style' procedure will overwrite or edit the existing 'style' attribute of a path node, while leaving the 'd' attribute and the 'transform' attribute unaffected. What I was proposing was the precise complement of this procedure, namely an 'Edit | Paste Path' procedure which would overwrite or edit the existing 'd' attribute and the 'transform' attribute of a path node, while leaving the 'style' attribute unaffected.
I'm not sure it's worth a command of its own, because it can be done with the current commands. Namely, if you have an object in which you want to replace path but not style, you just paste the entire object, and copy/paste style from the existing object to the pasted one. A bit longer, but now you have an object with the path from clipboard and style from the existing object which you can then delete.
The copy/paste of nodes, however, would be a new functionality, which you cannot currently achieve by other means. Plus, it will provide you with an even easier way to do what you need: copy/paste path between entire objects.