On Tue, 14 Feb 2017, Maren Hachmann wrote:
On Sun, 12 Feb 2017, Hans Carlson wrote:
Is there a way to see if there's anything below an object? ie, object A is a 10px circle and object B is a 20px circle right above it. How do you know object A is even there?
- There are a couple of ways to find that out, let's see what I can come
up with:
Main option: use Alt+Mousewheel to see what's in the stack below the mouse cursor
Others:
- use View -> Display Mode -> Outline (only works if objects have different outlines)
- use the Objects dialog (in 0.92)
- use Alt+Click and watch if the bounding box that you see changes (if objects have different sizes)
The main issue with these (other than the object dialog in 0.92 which I haven't tried) is most of the objects I'm talking about are the exact same size. So if I have 5 - 25px circles stacked on top of each other it's kind of tough to visually SEE that.
Sounds like the 0.92 objects dialog might be the best. Any idea when a MacOSX DMG for 0.92 will be created? And, if there will be one that supports Snow Leopard (10.6).
That seems kind of odd. When Scatter is used with the "Pick Group Members" option, the GROUP is essentially just a way to hold the objects... it's just a container, a bucket.
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Wouldn't it make more sense to use the width of the actual object being placed?
- Maybe having an option for that would be better - people might
actually want to have objects put at the exact same distance from object center to object center, no matter how big the single objects are.
I had thought the same thing. Maybe IF the "Pick Group Members" option is used, there could be another drop down for:
Use size/center of [group, members]
Seems we're collecting feature requests here - in the forum, there's a similar thread going on: http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=31789
Some of that does seem to be very similar to what I'd like to see.
With regards to that forum. Is there something special someone needs to do to get an account. I actually registered on the forum before I subscribed to this mailing list, but never received the activation email. I went to the login page and re-requested the activation email a couple times (once more today), but still haven't received anything. I know the email address is good because it's the same one I'm using here.