Lars Behrens wrote: 
Am Donnerstag, 14. Mai 2009  schrieb Tavmjong Bah:

  
Do you mean the "Create Tiled Clones" dialog (under Edit->Clone)? Use it
with 1 Row and 30 Columns. You can change the spacing on the "Shift
Tab". There is a whole chapter on the dialog in my book. See:

	http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Tiles.html
    

Yes, this is what I meant, but I think this tool would be a bit complicated 
for that task, I have to know the distance between objects and type it in 
etc. A bit cumbersome all in all.
Although this is indeed a bit tricky, merely copying an object is really not that
difficult. (I'm particularly having a hard time when trying to align the clones along
a circle, even if there is a tutorial on this somewhere.)

Select "Clone > Create Tiled Clone". Then select "P1 (Simple Translation)"
and "rows: 1; columns: 30" (if you would like the clones to tile horizontally;
otherwise vice versa) inside the first tab, and set your "Shift Factor" (x, y) .
Then press "Create". If  the result isn't what you want, press "Remove" and
start anew. You can scale & rotate the clones and a make  number of other
modifications. (You can set the distance between the objects in % using the
second tab from left.)

HTH,

Claus

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