On 2007-November-09 , at 20:54 , Jim Ford wrote:
David Christian Berg wrote:
hey Jim!
Actually this is not different from other programs. maybe the naming is, but clipping is actually quite common for that as well. What you want to do is Path->Difference.
I just tried it:
I drew a straight line with the bezier tool. I then drew a box using the bezier tool, overlapping a short bit at the end of the first line. I then selected both and did Path -> Difference, expecting the box and bit of line it overlapped to disappear - but _everything_ disappeared!
There are issues with boolean operations (difference, union etc) involving a straight line. It had bitten me several times and think it would be worth reporting as a bug. What would be even nicer is to collect a test file with all cases where it fails and attach it to the bug report.
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/