Hello -
I do not want to separate the lines I described. What I want is to draw a rectangle.
I think I have found the solution - At the bottom of "Edit" menu there is "Preferences" (? moved from the "File" menu since earlier versions) . Under "Tools" there is "Shapes" and under this, "Rectangle". Radio buttons under "Style of new objects" are "Last used style" and "This tool's own style". The default value is the former. I changed this to the latter, and found that Fill and Stroke now actually work.
I suppose when one starts Inkscape with a new document, "Last used style" will be nil, so logically nothing should happen when one tries to draw a shape. I have never seen this reasoning applied in software before.
This was my last throw before deciding to uninstall Inkscape.
Regards
John Sampson
On 07/03/2016 21:05, Carl Symons wrote:
On Monday, March 7, 2016 8:32:09 PM PST John Sampson wrote:
Hello -
What I want is two horizontal parallel lines of the same length, one vertically above the other, connected at the ends with two vertical parallel lines of the same length, thus tracing a rectangle. I would have thought the route to this appearance would be via the rectangle object.
Draw a rectangle with the rectangle tool open "Fill and Stroke" in the object menu selection (ctrl+shift+F) set fill to none; set stroke to whatever you want for the line appearance
select rectangle with the arrow (left toolbar) in the path menu selection, select object to path
change tool selector to edit paths by node (left toolbar) select all corners of the rectangle click on the icon (below the menu) that shows one node separating into 2 nodes The four corner nodes will change appearance
With the entire rectangle selected in the path menu selection, click on "break apart"
result is four separate lines as you have described
I managed to make the palette appear, but the manoeuvres you recommend have no effect. Thank you for trying to help me, though.
Regards
John S.
On 07/03/2016 18:05, Arlo Barnes wrote:
Can you describe a little more what you want in the end? Right now it sounds like you want the outline of a rectangle with nothing in the inside. That can be achieved by setting the stroke to a colour and the fill to nothing, which can be accomplished in the bottom left corner of the screen (there are a row of squares of different colours plus a white one with a red X through it signaling no colour, which can be clicked on to set the fill of a selected object or shift-clicked to set the stroke, the results of which will be shown on the object and also on two other rectangles in the bottom left) or by using the window brought up by pressing the key combo Control-Shift-F. -Arlo James Barnes
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