On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, bulia byak wrote:
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:28:52 -0300 From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> To: Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, n3storm <nestordiaz@...207...>, yipdw <yipdw1@...400...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] tileable patterns
On 8/12/06, Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> wrote:
It isn't possible to achieve this with patterns in svg is it?
Bulia has shown it is possible but from the amount of explanation required it clearly isn't easy. Easy when you know how perhaps, rather than easy to learn or discover. This discusssion might be a good opportunity to see how the feature could be recast in terms of tilable patterns to better match users expectations.
I think it's possible by making the declared width/height of the pattern different from (smaller than) its actual width/height.
Possible in SVG, hassle to actually do it since Jasc Webdraw (RIP) didn't provide user interface for it.
But we have no UI for that, and last I checked patterns with such margins had rendering problems in Inkscape.
More than a few of the patterns I produced for open clipart had a pattern area smaller than the area of the group of objects which made up the pattern.
An example: http://openclipart.org/clipart//special/patterns/pattern-arches-intersecting...
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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