Duplication is the key here, at the step where you do the the path division, before you do it duplicate the egg shape, so that you have a copy of the egg on top of the rectangle. Do path intersection instead of division, and you have a strip that sits on top of the original egg. Turn the stroke off and it will give the fill effect you want. It'll cover some of the stroke at the egdes, which isnt what you want, so duplicate the background egg again, and turn the fill off. This way also means you only have to edit one shape when you change the shape of the stripe.

The second example you gave is just a second shape drawn on top with no stroke applied, and node edited to line up nicely. (turn off stroke with the no paint option on the stroke tab (X icon) )

Hope that helps

Sim

On 8/19/06, Florian Schmitz <floele@...155...> wrote:

Hi.

I am new to Inkscape and have a seemingly simple problem, but I can't find a solution for it. I would like to create something like the yellow-pink egg as shown in the easter egg tutorial (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1493939&gro...), however, without black borders at the top and bottom of the yellow area.

Another example for what I want to achieve is http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Inkscapepiom1.png/8... The wings of that insect have a darker area which touches the border of the wings (I don't want there to be a gap between the darker area and the border though) but does not have a border itself.

I had a look at all tutorials I could find so far, but none of them gave me a hint. I hope that someone can enlighten me :)

Regards, Florian

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Florian Schmitz escribió:

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Duplication is the key here, at the step where you do the the path [...] also means you only have to edit one shape when you change the shape of the stripe.

Thanks. This seems a bit circumstantial to me, but it works :)

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The second example you gave is just a second shape drawn on top with no stroke applied, and node edited to line up nicely.

Well, this is the problem - how do I adjust the nodes so that they fit exactly to the border? Isn't there a way to do it automatically?

Regards, Florian

I guess this can be done using grid and snapping? Anyone can confirm this?

Well, I did it like the first suggestion now so that a second shape is hiding/overlaying the inaccuracies. I only thought there was a more sophisticated way to do that ^^ Anyway, thanks for all your help.

Regards, Florian

-----Original Message----- Jasper van de Gronde hat folgendes geschrieben:

Florian Schmitz wrote:

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Duplication is the key here, at the step where you do the the path [...] The second example you gave is just a second shape drawn on top with no stroke applied, and node edited to line up nicely.

Well, this is the problem - how do I adjust the nodes so that they fit exactly to the border? Isn't there a way to do it automatically?

If you first draw the underlying shape you can just duplicate it and then modify the nodes of the duplicate on one side only.

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