On 12/5/06, Donn <donn.ingle@...155...> wrote:
In clip, it is constrained to the shape of the upper object, regardless of the upper object's color/opacity/blur properties.
Cool. Is there any way to interactively move the clipped objects around and see the effect live? Unsetting all the time is rather unfriendly.
You can do this if you clip a group, not the object itself, then enter the group and move the object around without affecting clipping.
With mask, it is also influenced by the upper object's color like masks in photoshop or Gimp or Illustrator: Where there is a white color in the upper object, the lower will be opaque, and where there is black, it will be transparent.
I did not know this until your email. There is no hint in the help files. Cool feature. I tried it out. It's kind of odd though.
I agree it's slightly odd, but this is per the SVG standard. It's described in the FAQ:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#I.27m_trying_to_apply_a_gradient....
AFAIK In 0.45 (and perhaps current test versions) you will be able to do it, but you need to be in outline mode to see the clip or mask object.
That's another of my pet peeves - outline mode is also weird! :) It only shows the current selection in outlines - everything else is still normal with fills etc. This makes it impossible to use really. Am I missing something?
I'm not sure. Outline mode changes everything for me. In SVN, it also treats clippaths and masks better than in 0.44.