just tried it, it's good but not quite right.

I made a square 61.565mm set to the top right of the page and use P1 symmetry and set the bounding box to 210mm X 297 (A4) and it gave me two columns of five boxes(10 boxes) - except the bottom box on each column overhangs the page, so does not fit onto A4 and should not be included (giving 8 boxes) and leaves a big gap down the centre, so it could put three columns of four boxes (12 boxes) per sheet.

also is there a way to add space between the copies instead of doing it manually?

so tiled clone gives


but it would be nice if I could get this


maybe someone will know where to look in the online manual or something.

Thanks

Gaz

On 22 November 2014 at 23:12, Gary Hawkins <dragonlord666@...155...> wrote:
Thanks, I did not know that.

Gaz

On 22 November 2014 at 22:46, su_v <suv-sf@...16...> wrote:
On 2014-11-22 23:31 (+0100), Gary Hawkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder if we could have a auto fill option.
>
> if the page is set to A4 we create a shape or text or whatever and then
> select it, then copy it and then have an option to paste as many copies
> as possible that will fit on the page size
> for users that don't have a page then maybe they could draw a rectangle
> the size they want and auto fill could be set to use that size.
>
> handy for labels with logos but also for repeat cuts of the same sized
> objects.

'Edit > Clone > Create Tiles Clones ...' has an option to specify an
area to fill by width and height (instead of specifying the number of
rows and columns).

See also:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Tiles.html#id1202598


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