Hello -
I have been experimenting and finding pretty unpredictable behaviour. At one point I was able to get a rectangle with "stroke" that worked, but mostly making selections in "Fill and stroke", tab "Stroke paint" and "Stroke style", does nothing. When I do get both stroke and fill, it seems that the transparency of one has to be the same transparency as that of the other. They both change together. If I de-select the rectangle so that the dotted lines indicating selection do not obscure the stroke (if any), the rectangle is apt to vanish altogether from the scene never to be found again.
I do not want to separate the lines I described - I was only describing them separately to try to make it clearer what I wanted to see - a rectangle with no, or transparent, fill, and a visible stroke - a line surrounding the rectangle as one would see if drawing on paper with a pencil. Perhaps that is what I should do - doing it on a computer is insane to start with - I will go more insane if I go on with this much longer.
Regards
John S.
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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