Hello Inkscape List,
Thanks for a wonderful program. I have a fairly simple question which I can't figure out from internet searching. I am making a diagram and I would like to have a box in the upper left hand corner of the drawing show an enlarge portion of my drawing.
1) Is there an easy way to do this? By easy I mean if there an option for a box that limits graphic to inside the box... kind of .svg within an .svg?
2) If not and I have to do it manually, then I will relate my other problem right now. I was going to do this manually by drawing a rectangle then simply copy/paste the necessary items into my box to manually create the enlarged area. But for some reason whenever, I try to draw rectangle I get nothing but a box of dashed lines that disappears as soon as I don't click on it. Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong?
Anyways thanks alot in advance. I am running Ubuntu 8.10
Sam
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:58 PM, hippie dream <tonightsthenight@...155...> wrote:
- If not and I have to do it manually, then I will relate my other problem
right now. I was going to do this manually by drawing a rectangle then simply copy/paste the necessary items into my box to manually create the enlarged area. But for some reason whenever, I try to draw rectangle I get nothing but a box of dashed lines that disappears as soon as I don't click on it. Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong?
Sometimes I get this behaviour when I have set the fill color to the same color as the canvas (white by default). All you have to do is change the color of the box after you draw it (before clicking anywhere else on the canvas). A usefull tool for this situation is the outline mode (menu View->Display Mode->Outline or Ctrl+[keypad 5]), in outline mode you could see any object even if it doesn't have a fill or outline color. Hope it helps.
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 07:58:43 -0800 (PST) hippie dream <tonightsthenight@...155...> wrote:
Hello Inkscape List,
Thanks for a wonderful program. I have a fairly simple question which I can't figure out from internet searching. I am making a diagram and I would like to have a box in the upper left hand corner of the drawing show an enlarge portion of my drawing.
- Is there an easy way to do this? By easy I mean if there an option
for a box that limits graphic to inside the box... kind of .svg within an .svg?
I think this can be done with a clone, as I've done in the attached enlarge.svg. The biggest potential gotcha is that moving the original (the main image in the middle of the page) changes the part of the image that's enlarged. But you can probably avoid that, and the enlargement is easy enough to set up again if necessary.
So:
- make main drawing - group all pieces into one group - make a clone of this group - add a box on top of the clone over the area you want enlarged - with both box and clone selected use object->set clip to clip the clone by the box - reposition and resize the clone as desired
(unnecessary extra steps)
- make a hollow box to border the enlargement - copy the enlargement - paste the size from the enlargement to the hollow box (edit -> paste size) - align the hollow border box over the enlargement
Cheers -Terry
- If not and I have to do it manually, then I will relate my other
problem right now. I was going to do this manually by drawing a rectangle then simply copy/paste the necessary items into my box to manually create the enlarged area. But for some reason whenever, I try to draw rectangle I get nothing but a box of dashed lines that disappears as soon as I don't click on it. Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong?
Anyways thanks alot in advance. I am running Ubuntu 8.10
Sam
I think this can be done with a clone, as I've done in the attached enlarge.svg. The biggest potential gotcha is that moving the original (the main image in the middle of the page) changes the part of the image that's enlarged.
There is an option in Inkscape preferences that controls how the clones behave if the original moves, it's under Clones section.
On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:56:05 +0100 Mihaela <myhaella5@...660...> wrote:
I think this can be done with a clone, as I've done in the attached enlarge.svg. The biggest potential gotcha is that moving the original (the main image in the middle of the page) changes the part of the image that's enlarged.
There is an option in Inkscape preferences that controls how the clones behave if the original moves, it's under Clones section.
The clip doesn't move though, when you move the original, so the option on clone movement just relates to how the enlarged part changes, it can't stop it changing.
Cheers -Terry
Wonderful!
Thanks alot for your help. I am truly impressed with Inkscape and the way it seamlessly work with LaTex.
Appreciate it everybody.
Sam
If it's just for you when you're drawing, you could try "View" -> "Duplicate Window"
hippie dream wrote:
I am making a diagram and I would like to have a box in the upper left hand corner of the drawing show an enlarge portion of my drawing.
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