Hi Friends, It's just come to my attention that it's possible to use a group as a clipping path. Should that be possible?
If so, don't the multiple objects have the potential to cause trouble, if the file becomes very large and/or complex? I mean, if nothing else, it certainly has the potential to add unwanted or unneeded weight to the file.
Just on observation, it's not possible to edit the clipping path, when a group is used. In my simple test, the green clipping path is only showing around one of the objects in the group. And it's displaced.
There's an SVG file attached to this message: https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=1160.0
The silly distorted face is a group which is ready to be used to clip the dark blue rectangle. So you can see that it does work to use a group for a clipping path. And if you switch to the Node tool after that (and enable the clip path button), you can see that the smile path is displaced, and is the only part of the group which is showing as the clipping path.
Is all this expected behavior? What legitimate purpose is there, for using a group as a clipping path?
I've always gone to such pains (apparently) to use a single path for clipping. I guess if a group can be used, then a compound path, with mutliple subpaths could be used as well? I just don't understand why it's possible.
Thanks for comments.
brynn