On 4/21/05, John Taber <jtaber@...480...> wrote:
On Thursday 21 April 2005 07:17, bulia byak wrote:
If by adjusting you mean scaling, just scale with Ctrl, or click the lock toggle in the selector controls.
okay but where is this lock or selector controls? I can't find it anywhere - not under doc prefs, selecting. I think it should be under object properties
- that's the first place we looked for it.
No. It's not a property of an object. It's a property of the tool which you use for scaling. Therefore, it's in the tool controls bar. It's the horizontal bar just above canvas. Use the button with the lock icon.
- clipping out what you want and pasting it into a new drawing -
then exporting it.
There's no need to do this unless you want to hide all other objects except those you are exporting. Just select something and export
consider that we use svg maps - a river runs the length of the drawing but we are only clipping out an area that contains part of the river - that means clipping the river object (assuming it's something like a bezier line)
So do you want to hide all other objects when exporting the river or not? If not, just select the river and do export. If yes, you can do this from command line with the --export-id-only option (see man inkscape).
Okay, I understand what you are saying about the canvas and that we only need to worry about the actual svg elements, but we want to take the above clipped section, draw some stuff on it, resize, and export to a bitmap to put in a report, where one bitmap export might be the whole clipped area, one might be a zoomed in detail look. Does this make more sense of what the problem is ?
I don't see what the problem is. Select an object and export it, this will clip your drawing by this object. If you want to export a detail, draw a transparent rect over it and export that rect.