guides by layer? or guide profiles?
Hi Friends, Would it be possible to have guides by layers? I mean, so that when you hide a layer, the guides for that layer are hidden. And a different layer can have different guides? Since layers are just special groups, I'm guessing it would not be possible. Because guides are a document property, they're made to be displayed across both groups and layers. I'm often wishing I could have distinct sets of guides. For example, on one layer, I have a large star or circle, with guides set up that center on the star or circle . So it's a set of radial guides. But on another layer, I might need guides in a rectangular arrangement. Without any way to have distinct sets of guides, when I make my guides visible, sometimes it's almost like a nightmare! For example, see attached a screenshot of a file I've been working on. And that's one of the more manageable files, as far as guides. (yes, I changed them to red) So I wonder if there could be such a thing as "guide profiles" or "guide sets".....that could be individually hidden or visible. (not that I could actually write an extension, but I might request one, if it's possible).
Thanks for comments, brynn
Hi again, Oh the subject of guides -- would it be possible to put a Duplicate button in the Guide dialog? For example, you have a guide at some non-vertical, - horizontal, or -60 degree guide, and you need several of them. It would be much easier to click duplicate, and slide the guide over, than to drag out another one, rotate it, and set it in place. Just another thought. Is it do-able?
Thanks again, brynn
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Brynn" <brynn@...3089...> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 1:03 PM To: "Inkscape User Community" inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-user] guides by layer? or guide profiles?
Hi Friends, Would it be possible to have guides by layers? I mean, so that when you hide a layer, the guides for that layer are hidden. And a different layer can have different guides? Since layers are just special groups, I'm guessing it would not be possible. Because guides are a document property, they're made to be displayed across both groups and layers. I'm often wishing I could have distinct sets of guides. For example, on one layer, I have a large star or circle, with guides set up that center on the star or circle . So it's a set of radial guides. But on another layer, I might need guides in a rectangular arrangement. Without any way to have distinct sets of guides, when I make my guides visible, sometimes it's almost like a nightmare! For example, see attached a screenshot of a file I've been working on. And that's one of the more manageable files, as far as guides. (yes, I changed them to red) So I wonder if there could be such a thing as "guide profiles" or "guide sets".....that could be individually hidden or visible. (not that I could actually write an extension, but I might request one, if it's possible).
Thanks for comments, brynn
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Hi,
Guides by layer i don't know (probably doable, but require a lot of code investigation since guides are for now supposed to be in the root namedview. An option would be to allow them to be in any group and inherit its visibility, another option would be to add an [optional?] inkscape:layer attribute but in this case it might become very painful to track changes made to the layers)
Duplicating guides is certainly doable, since you can already duplicate them from the xml editor (select the guide [they are in svg:svg->sodipodi:namedview->sodipodi:guide] and click "duplicate node")
Oh, thanks for the info, Marc!
What about something like "guide sets" or "guide profiles" which would be distinct sets of guides which could be hidden/displayed individually? They wouldn't be associated with groups or layers, or anything.
TA :-)
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On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 04:05 -0700, Brynn wrote:
Oh, thanks for the info, Marc!
What about something like "guide sets" or "guide profiles" which would be distinct sets of guides which could be hidden/displayed individually? They wouldn't be associated with groups or layers, or anything.
TA :-)
You can effectively do this already by creating regular SVG paths that are tagged as part of a selection set. Create guide paths for each layer in that layer and then create a selection set for them. You can also create a selection set for all the guide paths in the document. Using the Selection Sets and Objects dialogs you can quickly toggle locking and hiding each set. Make sure to enable "Snap to paths" rather than "Snap guides"
Tav
Thanks Tav. I'm not familiar with "selection sets". Where can I find more info? I don't see anything on this page: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Select.html although I might have overlooked something.
brynn
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...206...> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 5:13 AM To: "Inkscape User Community" inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] guides by layer? or guide profiles?
On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 04:05 -0700, Brynn wrote:
Oh, thanks for the info, Marc!
What about something like "guide sets" or "guide profiles" which would be distinct sets of guides which could be hidden/displayed individually? They wouldn't be associated with groups or layers, or anything.
TA :-)
You can effectively do this already by creating regular SVG paths that are tagged as part of a selection set. Create guide paths for each layer in that layer and then create a selection set for them. You can also create a selection set for all the guide paths in the document. Using the Selection Sets and Objects dialogs you can quickly toggle locking and hiding each set. Make sure to enable "Snap to paths" rather than "Snap guides"
Tav
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On Sun, 2016-01-17 at 21:31 -0700, Brynn wrote:
Thanks Tav. I'm not familiar with "selection sets". Where can I find more info? I don't see anything on this page: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Select.html although I might have overlooked something.
Brynn, I've never heard of them. They sound great... and maybe completely hidden. It's sort of (but not really) like that meta-group idea so objects can be both in front of and behind other objects.
Tav, is this an idea of a feature or something that exists in 0.91?
Martin,
On Sun, 2016-01-17 at 21:31 -0700, Brynn wrote:
Thanks Tav. I'm not familiar with "selection sets". Where can I find more info?
Sorry, they are only in trunk (under the "Objects" menu). I forgot that they aren't in 0.91.
Tav
I don't see anything on this page: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Select.html although I m ight have overlooked something.
brynn
From: "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...206...> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 5:13 AM To: "Inkscape User Community" inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] guides by layer? or guide profiles?
On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 04:05 -0700, Brynn wrote:
Oh, thanks for the info, Marc!
What about something like "guide sets" or "guide profiles" which would be distinct sets of guides which could be hidden/displayed individually? They wouldn't be associated with groups or layers, or anything.
TA :-)
You can effectively do this already by creating regular SVG paths that are tagged as part of a selection set. Create guide paths for each layer in that layer and then create a selection set for them. You can also create a selection set for all the guide paths in the document. Using the Selection Sets and Objects dialogs you can quickly toggle locking and hiding each set. Make sure to enable "Snap to paths" rather than "Snap guides"
Tav
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For 0.48 and 0.91 some of the suggestions in this thread on the forum might help to achieve a similar effect to selection sets:
http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=18483
In particular, the extension I attached to that thread sounds like it comes close, though the workflow for just showing and hiding some objects-serving-as-guides possibly isn't worth the effort.
Mark (Xav on the forum thread)
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...206...> wrote:
On Sun, 2016-01-17 at 21:31 -0700, Brynn wrote:
Thanks Tav. I'm not familiar with "selection sets". Where can I find more info?
Sorry, they are only in trunk (under the "Objects" menu). I forgot that they aren't in 0.91.
Tav
I don't see anything on this page: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Select.html although I m ight have overlooked something.
brynn
From: "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...206...> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 5:13 AM To: "Inkscape User Community" inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] guides by layer? or guide profiles?
On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 04:05 -0700, Brynn wrote:
Oh, thanks for the info, Marc!
What about something like "guide sets" or "guide profiles" which would be distinct sets of guides which could be hidden/displayed individually? They wouldn't be associated with groups or layers, or anything.
TA :-)
You can effectively do this already by creating regular SVG paths that are tagged as part of a selection set. Create guide paths for each layer in that layer and then create a selection set for them. You can also create a selection set for all the guide paths in the document. Using the Selection Sets and Objects dialogs you can quickly toggle locking and hiding each set. Make sure to enable "Snap to paths" rather than "Snap guides"
Tav
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Ok, thanks Tav. I'll wait either for 0.92 stable or if I have some other reason to install it as development version.
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...206...> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 7:08 AM To: "Inkscape User Community" inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] guides by layer? or guide profiles?
On Sun, 2016-01-17 at 21:31 -0700, Brynn wrote:
Thanks Tav. I'm not familiar with "selection sets". Where can I find more info?
Sorry, they are only in trunk (under the "Objects" menu). I forgot that they aren't in 0.91.
Tav
I don't see anything on this page: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Select.html although I m ight have overlooked something.
brynn
From: "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...206...> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 5:13 AM To: "Inkscape User Community" inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] guides by layer? or guide profiles?
On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 04:05 -0700, Brynn wrote:
Oh, thanks for the info, Marc!
What about something like "guide sets" or "guide profiles" which would be distinct sets of guides which could be hidden/displayed individually? They wouldn't be associated with groups or layers, or anything.
TA :-)
You can effectively do this already by creating regular SVG paths that are tagged as part of a selection set. Create guide paths for each layer in that layer and then create a selection set for them. You can also create a selection set for all the guide paths in the document. Using the Selection Sets and Objects dialogs you can quickly toggle locking and hiding each set. Make sure to enable "Snap to paths" rather than "Snap guides"
Tav
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