How to select invisible objects
I created a template with text frames (simple rectangles). Because there seems to be no highlighting of objects a way that the highlighting is not printed (a fix part of the object itself), I decided to configure no fill and no border for the frames and leave the ruler guides at place. However, then I was not able to select any frame anymore except via the XML-editor. Is there a more clever method?
Dennis
On 2007-February-11 , at 01:12 , Dennis Heuer wrote:
I created a template with text frames (simple rectangles). Because there seems to be no highlighting of objects a way that the highlighting is not printed (a fix part of the object itself), I decided to configure no fill and no border for the frames and leave the ruler guides at place. However, then I was not able to select any frame anymore except via the XML-editor. Is there a more clever method?
You can use outline mode (View > Display mode > Outline) in which even objects with no fill and no stroke are visible. In addition, because I love Inkscape, I tried to use it in the past for some text editing work but it proved to be a bit poor in this respect. If you are really going to do a lot of text edition for your work, I would advise you to have a look at Scribus which is also free, cross-platform and has nice SVG import (so you can make your illustrations in Inkscape and make the final layout with the text in Scribus). The other solution would be to help impove Inkscape text tool! Cheers,
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:28:34 +0100 jiho <jo.irisson@...155...> wrote:
You can use outline mode (View > Display mode > Outline) in which even objects with no fill and no stroke are visible.
Works! Thanks. By the way. I use the german version. In the view folder, the last entry is greyed out and the text says (literally):
verb "fullscreen" unknown
The word fullscreen is really in english. Possibly that's the fault.
Dennis
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 04:07:19PM +0100, Dennis Heuer wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:28:34 +0100 jiho <jo.irisson@...155...> wrote:
You can use outline mode (View > Display mode > Outline) in which even objects with no fill and no stroke are visible.
Works! Thanks. By the way. I use the german version. In the view folder, the last entry is greyed out and the text says (literally):
verb "fullscreen" unknown
The word fullscreen is really in english. Possibly that's the fault.
Dennis
Please report this as a bug, so it'll get caught and fixed for 0.45.1.
Bryce
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