inkscape-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net wrote on 13/09/2005 11:25:00 AM:
Hello to the group. I'm new here and new to Inkscape. I've spent way too
many hours on this, so I'm going to ask.....
I have created an image of a plaque. The border around it is essentially
lines and curves connected together until they meet at the starting
point,
then another that is one grid square inside of the first.
I want to fill the area between the parallel lines (that form the
border)
with a color, then fill the inside of the plaque image with a different color. I can manage to get odd-ball areas to fill with color, but that's
it.
Have you joined your lines into a single path?
You have to kind of make a closed object from your path components.
Say I wanted to make a wavy-sided rectangle, I could draw a freehand line, copy it 3 more times, and flip two of them -> giving me 4 sides.
Note that if you use the pen to draw a path, you get an extra 'tail' node when you double-click to finish off (any way to stop this?) Using the node tool, drag this one away and [Del]ete it.
(1) Lay them out into your rectangle, then select all.
(2) Use [Path]->[Combine] to make it into one shape.
(3) Using the node tool, drag a box around the corners of your rectangle selecting the pairs of line-ends (i.e. the corners).
(4) On the tool is a node-joiner, click the one that joins two-nodes into one, repeat for all corners. [-O O-] -> [-O-]
This sounds complicated, but it isn't. It gives you a closed shape you can fill, or adjust the line style willy-nilly.
Don't forget that you can adjust the z-axis of your shapes too. So if you want a big frilly border to your plaque, but a white middle, place a white-filled rectangle in the middle. If something jumps above it, change the z-ordering with [PgUp]/[PgDown].
So to simulate filling between parallel lines, place a filled rectangle ontop of another filled rectangle. (or combined the shapes?)
hope this helps, -kt
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