On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 11:33 -0400, bulia byak wrote:
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:48:14 -0500, Carl Brown <cbsled@...483...> wrote:
While that worked, the result wasn't exactly what I had in mind. Maybe I'm going about it wrong, or maybe it is currently not possible. The resulting pattern starts from a point unknown to me, and is gridded. The net effect is the same as if a layer containing a solid grid of the repeated pattern was masked so that only the stroke area is visible.
Yes, that's exactly what SVG standard prescribes.
I wanted the pattern to follow the stroke line, in a manner somewhat similar to text on a path. This is obviously a different beast. It would require, first, a rectangular pattern converted into a warpable format. Then it would need a wrapping function to apply it to the path. Then the Stroke Style > Width would scale the pattern to the desired width, so that the stroke would always be exactly one pattern wide regardless of stroke width.
I see. What you need is something like "tile clones along a path" feature which would be our own extension over standard SVG (that is, only Inkscape would be able to edit it, though all SVG software would be able to render it). We don't yet have it, but it's definitely in the plans (perhaps along with a drawing tool that would draw using such multi-object strokes).
Looking at it from the interface perspective, I'd call it a brush. You could convert an object into a brush, just like you can now convert an object into a pattern. Once you has a brush you could then use it on an object as another property (fill, stroke). The stroke width would define the scale of the brush.
Hopefully this makes sense.
cheers