Why are you using both tile clones AND pattern fill? Won't one of them suffice?
Tile clone is ideal to produce a regular pattern. Of course I can then use the objects produce by tile clone and clip them to the shape I need. Much more comfortable is of course to make a pattern of it and use it easily with all shapes that should be filled.
For such a pattern, I would take a filled rectangle, not a stroke, and tile it when it's horizontal, then rotate the entire pattern. This would give you a seamless pattern.
I'll try, thanks.
We can provide a number of user setting for how the bounding box of an object is calculated: with or without stroke (currently with), with or without markers (currently with), with or without the blurred margin (currently without). Does anyone think it might be a good idea? I'd like to avoid the burden of supporting several different modes, but several people have requested the "without stroke" bboxes.
I think it would be very helpful. For me the "with stroke" is very irritating, e.g. object location (x,y) and dimensions (in the toolbar) change when I change stroke width.
As for clipping, it's still relatively new, and may be poorly tested in combination with patterns etc. If you investigate the problem and submit a detailed bug report with sample files that would help a lot.
I'll do that as soon as possible.
Henning