I was just trying to draw a line and place markers either at the beginning or end. What I noticed is that irrespective of the color I choose for the stroke, the marker would always be black. Is there a way to change it? Can somebody give some pointers to this? I am attaching a test file with this mail.
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inkscape-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net wrote on 24/01/2006 12:46:56 PM:
I was just trying to draw a line and place markers either at the beginning or end. What I noticed is that irrespective of the color I choose for the stroke, the marker would always be black. Is there a way to change it? Can somebody give some pointers to this? I am attaching a test file with this mail.
There is currently no way to do this, the markers are always black. (and are shared by your various lines).
The only way I could find around it was to place my own markers on the end of the line, and group them to the line. It's quite quick if you draw all your lines first, then create a end-pointer and copy it to all the end-of-lines you want as arrows/whatever. Remember to group the pointer with the line.
Incidently I tried to edit the XML and change the colours of the pointers, but I couldn't get it to work, and besides needed more than one colour of pointer.
hope this helps, -kt
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See:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/ch11s03.html#id2773282
There is a complication: Apply the fill color attribute to the marker id, not the path id. The change should be immediate. However, if the path object has defined fill or stroke color, you must change that (can be removed after adding color attribute to marker) and then save, close, and reopen the file to see the change.
If your rename the marker (necessary if you want versions with different colors) you must also save, close, and reopen the file.
This will be clarified in the next version of the manual.
Tav
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 13:01 +1100, Kinsley Turner wrote:
inkscape-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net wrote on 24/01/2006 12:46:56 PM:
I was just trying to draw a line and place markers either at the beginning or end. What I noticed is that irrespective of the color I choose for the stroke, the marker would always be black. Is there a way to change it? Can somebody give some pointers to this? I am attaching a test file with this mail.
There is currently no way to do this, the markers are always black. (and are shared by your various lines).
The only way I could find around it was to place my own markers on the end of the line, and group them to the line. It's quite quick if you draw all your lines first, then create a end-pointer and copy it to all the end-of-lines you want as arrows/whatever. Remember to group the pointer with the line.
Incidently I tried to edit the XML and change the colours of the pointers, but I couldn't get it to work, and besides needed more than one colour of pointer.
hope this helps, -kt
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 08:37:07AM +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
See:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/ch11s03.html#id2773282
There is a complication: Apply the fill color attribute to the marker id, not the path id. The change should be immediate. However, if the path object has defined fill or stroke color, you must change that (can be removed after adding color attribute to marker) and then save, close, and reopen the file to see the change.
Thanks. That solved the problem.
This will be clarified in the next version of the manual.
Fine. But, can it not be simplified so that by default, the marker takes on the color of the stroke?
Regards,
--- "Sridhar M.A." <mas@...1506...> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 08:37:07AM +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
See:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/ch11s03.html#id2773282
There is a complication: Apply the fill color attribute to the
marker
id, not the path id. The change should be immediate. However, if
the
path object has defined fill or stroke color, you must change
that (can
be removed after adding color attribute to marker) and then
save, close,
and reopen the file to see the change.
Thanks. That solved the problem.
This will be clarified in the next version of the manual.
Fine. But, can it not be simplified so that by default, the marker takes on the color of the stroke?
Nope, cos the SVG spec says that markers shouldnt inherit style info. Stupid, but thats how it is.
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--- "Sridhar M.A." <mas@...1506...> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 08:37:07AM +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
See:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/ch11s03.html#id2773282
There is a complication: Apply the fill color attribute to the
marker
id, not the path id. The change should be immediate. However, if
the
path object has defined fill or stroke color, you must change
that (can
be removed after adding color attribute to marker) and then
save, close,
and reopen the file to see the change.
Thanks. That solved the problem.
This will be clarified in the next version of the manual.
Fine. But, can it not be simplified so that by default, the marker takes on the color of the stroke?
Nope, cos the SVG spec says that markers shouldnt inherit style info. Stupid, but thats how it is.
Isn't there a potential solution though? Wouldn't making it applied directly to the marker vs inheriting style from the stroke be doable? Effectively, that way we're not writing it to inherit the style (ala css or whatever), but instead also writing the stroke color to the marker color as well (then it's not inherited since it's explicit). Does that make sense? And we could even throw a checkbox in the Stroke Style tab that would could be for "set marker color same as stroke color" (or something less wordy). We've seen this so many times now and I'd hope we could get around it by good UI. Any thoughts? Any reasons why this wouldn't be feasible?
-Josh
Joshua A. Andler wrote:
Isn't there a potential solution though? Wouldn't making it applied directly to the marker vs inheriting style from the stroke be doable? Effectively, that way we're not writing it to inherit the style (ala css or whatever), but instead also writing the stroke color to the marker color as well (then it's not inherited since it's explicit). Does that make sense? And we could even throw a checkbox in the Stroke Style tab that would could be for "set marker color same as stroke color" (or something less wordy). We've seen this so many times now and I'd hope we could get around it by good UI. Any thoughts? Any reasons why this wouldn't be feasible?
That certainly could (and probably should) be done. But I think markers can be arbitrary SVG and may include many elements with various stroke and fill colors.
Aaron Spike
on Tuesday 24 January 2006 19:19 Joshua A. Andler wrote:
Isn't there a potential solution though? Wouldn't making it applied directly to the marker vs inheriting style from the stroke be doable? Effectively, that way we're not writing it to inherit the style (ala css or whatever), but instead also writing the stroke color to the marker color as well (then it's not inherited since it's explicit). Does that make sense? And we could even throw a checkbox in the Stroke Style tab that would could be for "set marker color same as stroke color" (or something less wordy). We've seen this so many times now and I'd hope we could get around it by good UI. Any thoughts? Any reasons why this wouldn't be feasible?
Great idea, I'd be glad if the marker-color-thing would be a bit easier!
Cheerz Lars
On 1/24/06, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...233...> wrote:
Isn't there a potential solution though?
Yes. Not potential but the real compatible solution. It's in SVG 1.2 and just needs to be coded. Details in this bug:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=995815&grou...
While not yet implemented, can this information please be added to a FAQ, so that people don't have to reinvent workarounds?
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