Tavmjong Bah wrote:
So I thought to convert the bitmap to a pattern, then fill the horseshoe path with the pattern. No joy. The bitmap turns into a slightly smaller rectangular pattern that is divided into four unequal quadrants, that is, it is tiled.
I have had another look at the so-called "pattern" produced from the pixmap. In /Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program/, the example shows a small tile consisting of a few objects that is converted into a pattern. But when I selected a pixmap and turned it into a pattern, the pixmap was cropped so that only part of the area was converted to a pattern. It is not possible to apply transforms to fill a closed path with a single tile that shows the same area as the original.
Is it significant that the pixmap is imported by reference from an external file? I notice that if I modify these external files in Gimp, then the next time the importing SVG is opened the pixmap is updated. Do pixmaps actually have to be embedded in the SVG file for patterns to be created correctly? I will try enclosing the pixmap in an invisible border, grouping it with the border, then creating a pattern from the grouped compound object.
Regards, Hedley
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