17 Dec
2015
17 Dec
'15
11:17 p.m.
Hi,
the simplest way to do that is to convert your square to a pattern (object->pattern->object to pattern); then it will appear as a pattern in the fill and stroke panel, and you can use that as a fill for your circle.
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Mc
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Attributes-Fill-Stroke.html#Att...
On 12/17/2015 05:10 PM, jimssupp@...3197... wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm moving over to Linux & Inkscape from Windows & Adobe.
>
> I'm working on learning the tools and methods in Inkscape. Got a
> lot of it figured out. Pretty similar actually.
>
> I do have a test case that I'd appreciate some help figuring out:
>
> Given an arbitrarily shaped object, how do I mask out a tiled
> pattern, using only complete tile objects?
>
> So for example, starting with
>
> (1) main object is a red, 8inch diameter circle (2) mask object is
> a black, 1inch square
>
> I want to mask (1) with (2), so I end up with a bunch of complete
> (no clipped, or partial) 1inch red squares on a grid, contained
> inside the boundary of the original 8 inch circle.
>
> I've figured out Tile Clones, so I can manually make a grid of
> mask objects larger than the original object.
>
> I guess I'd put together two layers -- one with the original and
> one with the mask later -- and intersect them.
>
> Is there a way to do this in (more?) automated fashion providing
> the sources only for (1) & (2)?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jim
>
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