Facundo Casco wrote:
What clipping does is take the area covered by the topmost object and use it as the visible area for the object below. I use it to crop pictures with rounded corners. To do this I first import the picture, draw a new box over it and place it in the right spot on top of the picture. Then I select both and apply clipping. Note that clipping doesn't change the original object, it just affects is visible area.
In your case what I would do is duplicate one of the lines and then use Path->Cut Path with two different lines selected. That would cut the line just at the end. If you want to cut the other one too repeat duplicating the one just cut.
Hope it helps.
On 11/8/07, Jim Ford <jaford@...2359...> wrote:
I'm finding trouble getting to grips with clipping!
Say I have two lines crossing near their ends and I want to cut the 'loose' ends off. If I then draw around a piece of line I want trimming, select the line to be trimmed and the clipping path object, and then do Object -> Clip, everything _other_ than the bit I want trimmed disappears! Is this the way it should work?
I have the feeling that I'm missing the point regarding clipping (and the docs aren't very clear)!
If you want to know more about clipping, here are some useful resources to help get your head around it:
this one is a work in progress for an official tutorial, however, the clipping section is almost complete: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Scratchpad_clippingtutorial
microUgly's section on clipping and masks is also worth a look at: http://www.microugly.com/inkscape-quickguide/#work-clip
i have also done a mini-tutorial trying to explain clipping, also: http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2007/05/24/inkscape-how-the-clip-function-works...
hope this helps.
ryanlerch