I haven't seen another answer posted so I'll throw in my 2 cents worth.

The new path Effect "Bend Path" will work fairly close to what you want, if the group of stars in your diagram is converted to a path first (see attached).

Unfortunately this requires the stars to be a single (combined) path and not a group of objects. It also distorts the stars (you can see the end up as curves, not straight line).

You can, however, use the Effects->Generator from Path->Pattern along Path extension to bend a group of objects along a bezier path.

-Rob A>

On Dec 28, 2007 9:14 PM, username132 wrote:

Is there some way that I can link objects to a path so that I can change the path and have the objects follow it? I've made an SVG to demonstrate what I mean (in this example, I had to move the objects manually to match the path. This would be a very tedious method for my actual intention.

http://www.petaimg.com/uploads/1198962735.svg http://www.petaimg.com/uploads/1198962735.svg

My actual intention is to construct a PCR (OE-PCR) illustration for Wikipedia. If you take a look at this, made by someone else:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/DNA_polymerase.svg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/DNA_polymerase.svg

you see the DNA strands that I have in mind. I want to be able to bend them easily as though they were a single contiguous path, without having to re-adjust each object. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Linking-objects-to-a-path-for-quick-and-easy-bending-a... Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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