Especially in technical drawings, often you need many different objects to have the same size. It's very tiresome to copy/paste the numbers in the W/H fields. So:
A number of commands are added to easily scale selected objects to match the size of the object(s) previously copied to the clipboard. They are all in the Paste Size submenu in Edit menu:
* Paste Size scales the whole selection to match the size of the clipboard object(s).
* Paste Width scales the whole selection horizontally so that it matches the width of the clipboard object(s).
* Paste Height scales the whole selection vertically so that it matches the height of the clipboard object(s).
* Paste Size Separately scales each selected object separately so that it matches the size of the clipboard object(s).
-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
This qualifies as one of those enhancements that I never knew I needed. FANTASTIC! This is easily one of the greatest improvements I've seen in a while. It has all options I'd need and is everything I'd hope it would be. Rock on Bulia!
-Josh
bulia byak wrote:
Especially in technical drawings, often you need many different objects to have the same size. It's very tiresome to copy/paste the numbers in the W/H fields. So:
A number of commands are added to easily scale selected objects to match the size of the object(s) previously copied to the clipboard. They are all in the Paste Size submenu in Edit menu:
* Paste Size scales the whole selection to match the size of theclipboard object(s).
* Paste Width scales the whole selection horizontally so that itmatches the width of the clipboard object(s).
* Paste Height scales the whole selection vertically so that itmatches the height of the clipboard object(s).
* Paste Size Separately scales each selected object separately sothat it matches the size of the clipboard object(s).
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Joshua A. Andler wrote:
This qualifies as one of those enhancements that I never knew I needed. FANTASTIC! This is easily one of the greatest improvements I've seen in a while. It has all options I'd need and is everything I'd hope it would be. Rock on Bulia!
Of course I spoke too soon about all the options I'd need. ;) I thought of two more size related paste options, what about pasting width or height and constraining proportions? I know that sometimes I need the width to match, but need the height scaled proportionally with it (such as a logo). What are your thoughts on this?
-Josh
On 3/27/06, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> wrote:
Of course I spoke too soon about all the options I'd need. ;) I thought of two more size related paste options, what about pasting width or height and constraining proportions? I know that sometimes I need the width to match, but need the height scaled proportionally with it (such as a logo). What are your thoughts on this?
Right now pasting width or height keeps the other dimension unchanged. But I can change that so it is scaled in the same proportion, preserving ratio. Do you think it will be more useful? What do others think?
-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
On 3/27/06, bulia byak wrote:
Right now pasting width or height keeps the other dimension unchanged. But I can change that so it is scaled in the same proportion, preserving ratio. Do you think it will be more useful? What do others think?
Both would be useful actually. And we will need a whole new Pasting palette :)
Alexandre
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On 3/27/06, bulia byak wrote:
Right now pasting width or height keeps the other dimension unchanged. But I can change that so it is scaled in the same proportion, preserving ratio. Do you think it will be more useful? What do others think?
Both would be useful actually. And we will need a whole new Pasting palette :)
Good call... I will add this to my list of mini-toolbars to do. :)
-Josh
bulia byak wrote:
On 3/27/06, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> wrote:
Of course I spoke too soon about all the options I'd need. ;) I thought of two more size related paste options, what about pasting width or height and constraining proportions? I know that sometimes I need the width to match, but need the height scaled proportionally with it (such as a logo). What are your thoughts on this?
Right now pasting width or height keeps the other dimension unchanged. But I can change that so it is scaled in the same proportion, preserving ratio. Do you think it will be more useful? What do others think?
I think they have different uses. It's like how in the transform dialog in the scale tab how there's a check box for "scale proportionally". I would think that if we could add additional menu entries for "paste width (scale proportionally)" and "paste height (scale proportionally)" or something to that effect, we'd get the best of both worlds. There are definitely times when you want it proportional and other times that you specifically don't. What do you and others think?
-Josh
On 3/27/06, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> wrote:
I think they have different uses.
So what if we just make it obey the scaling ratio lock in the Selector controls?
-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
On 3/27/06, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> wrote:
bulia byak wrote:
On 3/27/06, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> wrote:
I think they have different uses.
So what if we just make it obey the scaling ratio lock in the Selector controls?
Sounds reasonable to me. :)
ok, done
-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
On 3/27/06, bulia byak wrote:
So what if we just make it obey the scaling ratio lock in the Selector controls?
Sounds reasonable to me. :)
ok, done
And since it ises ratio lock, is there a hotkey to lock/unlock ratio in Selector mode? I couldn't find it in reference keys.svg.
Alexandre
On 3/27/06, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote:
And since it ises ratio lock, is there a hotkey to lock/unlock ratio in Selector mode? I couldn't find it in reference keys.svg.
Currently there's none, but it might be a good idea. Maybe NumLock or ScrollLock?
-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
On 3/28/06, bulia byak wrote:
And since it ises ratio lock, is there a hotkey to lock/unlock ratio in Selector mode? I couldn't find it in reference keys.svg.
Currently there's none, but it might be a good idea. Maybe NumLock or ScrollLock?
I think any of them would work, not so easily on laptops, though :)
Alexandre
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