On Mon, 13 Feb 2017, brynn wrote:
I don't remember which system you're using Inkscape on, or if you have a reason not to want to upgrade. But just fyi, in case you might want to re-visit that option.
Inkscape 0.91 on MacOSX. Right now I'm using an old laptop with Snow Leopard (10.6). I have a newer laptop with Sierra (10.12), but it's got some hardware problems that may or may not get fixed, so I may be stuck with the older system for a while.
But, it doesn't look like there's a MacOSX DMG for 0.92 yet. Hopefully, when there is, it will support 10.6.
If the circle objects are not in a group, then Scatter is going to use each object's bounding box for the measure.
I'm not sure what you mean by this statement. It kind of sounds like you're saying I can give Scatter a PATH and multiple objects which are NOT in a group. If that's true, I'm not sure how to do it. If I select a PATH and multiple objects, then Scatter complains (a Python traceback is displayed).
From what I've seen, Scatter requires a PATH and either ONE object or ONE
group. Then IF you supply a group, you have the OPTION of using the objects within that group. But in this case it still seems to use the bounding box of the group, not the bounding box for each of the objects in the group. This means if the objects within the group are different sizes, the spacing when placed on the path will be different.
I've been thinking that you wanted all the circle objects centered to each other. But if they are going to be kind of spread around, and disconnected it will be harder to manage the whole thing.
I want the spacing between the objects to be the same once they're placed on the path, regardless of the width of the object.