On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 07:58:43 -0800 (PST) hippie dream <tonightsthenight@...155...> wrote:
Hello Inkscape List,
Thanks for a wonderful program. I have a fairly simple question which I can't figure out from internet searching. I am making a diagram and I would like to have a box in the upper left hand corner of the drawing show an enlarge portion of my drawing.
- Is there an easy way to do this? By easy I mean if there an option
for a box that limits graphic to inside the box... kind of .svg within an .svg?
I think this can be done with a clone, as I've done in the attached enlarge.svg. The biggest potential gotcha is that moving the original (the main image in the middle of the page) changes the part of the image that's enlarged. But you can probably avoid that, and the enlargement is easy enough to set up again if necessary.
So:
- make main drawing - group all pieces into one group - make a clone of this group - add a box on top of the clone over the area you want enlarged - with both box and clone selected use object->set clip to clip the clone by the box - reposition and resize the clone as desired
(unnecessary extra steps)
- make a hollow box to border the enlargement - copy the enlargement - paste the size from the enlargement to the hollow box (edit -> paste size) - align the hollow border box over the enlargement
Cheers -Terry
- If not and I have to do it manually, then I will relate my other
problem right now. I was going to do this manually by drawing a rectangle then simply copy/paste the necessary items into my box to manually create the enlarged area. But for some reason whenever, I try to draw rectangle I get nothing but a box of dashed lines that disappears as soon as I don't click on it. Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong?
Anyways thanks alot in advance. I am running Ubuntu 8.10
Sam
