On 3/17/06, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> wrote:
- In Inkscape, currently you can not edit a clippath on canvas
(presumably because it's located in defs). I wouldn't imagine this wouldn't be too painful to change, but the aspect of residing in defs brings up the other major difference/problem.
OK, suppose you have a clipped object and you want to edit the clippath. What's wrong with this: you unclip ("release") it so that the clippath becomes a regular path, edit it, and then clip back? I always thought that's the way you do it in AI (but I may be wrong on this, as I never used clipping much anywhere).
- In Xara or Illustrator when you clip objects, they're "grouped"
together (clipped objects and the clipping path/mask). It doesn't seem like this is easily achieved because of the structure of SVG and defs preceding regular items in the doc.
What do you mean by "grouping"? Why would you, as a user, care about document structure at all? What you need is the correct behavior, not structure. Most importantly, the clippath must be transformed together with the clipped object. This is already true for some kinds of objects (eg ellipses) and I know how to make it true for all objects. And this is doable regardless of whether the clippath is in defs or not.
So, unless I'm missing something, I don't see any need for moving clippaths out of defs as Mental suggested.
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