The only change that would be involved would be to rasterize only the current layer,....
But what if the objects that create the enclosed space are on different layers?
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Marc Jeanmougin" <marc@...3080...> Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2015 5:20 AM To: "Inkscape User Community" inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Fill "only on one layer"
I know almost nothing about coding or programming. But to my simple way of thinking, that would be very complex feature. [...]
Not necessarily, actually*. The way the PB works is :
- rasterize the visible part of the drawing
- raster-fill that raster version
- trace that bitmap fill
(which is why it is such an non-exact tool on vector parts when you look closely)
The only change that would be involved would be to rasterize only the current layer, same as you can alt+b any selected group even if there are other items in front (layers are only groups, after all).
I consider the PB tool to be a nice way of "quickly trace" patches on imported bitmaps, but not much more than that, so I completely agree with your "better practice" advice.
-- Mc
*: I haven't tried to do it so there my be hidden pitfalls when doing that.
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