Re: [Inkscape-user] Make 2 paths from 1
I'm glad you find it useful. A little tip, you do not need to modify the nodes of each path separately. Select both objects with the selection tool, and then, using the node editing tool, you can select shared nodes of both pathsmaking a selection box around the nodes (click and drag around)
El 10/08/13 14:12, Maurice van Peursem escribió:
Thanks Alejandro,
I'm new to Inkscape, and this is indeed very helpful. I have yet to learn how to use all the path-modifying options. The only disadvantage is that once separated, you get 2 border paths that you will have to edit both is you want to change the border later. But this is good start.
Maurice
may be a solution, but do not know if it will be useful. For maps, you can trace the area around it, and then draw a line for the "frontiers". Then select both lines, and use the option "division" from path menu. I send an attached file with an example (quite horrible to see, but hopefully explanatory)
El 10/08/13 13:33, Robert Funnell escribió:
Maurice-
You may want to look at the thread on making maps from last May:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=519BAB8A.9070502%40wildintellect.com&forum_name=inkscape-userhttp://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=519BAB8A.9070502%40...
Unless things have changed, the answer is that for now it's better to maintain maps with some other tool.
- Robert
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013, Maurice van Peursem wrote:
Thanks, this helps a little. But the rectangle is only an example, the drawing I'm working on is more complicated. Take for instance the map of Europe, with all coutries painted in a different color. The path-segments on each border belong to two paths, around the two bordering countries. Now if I want to edit that border, I would like to edit only one path. Is that possible? Or do I have to draw each border twice?
Thanks for the help. Maurice
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Alejandro -
I had just discovered this trick from an Adobe Illustrator thread and was trying it in Inkscape when I saw your message. When I select the two nodes at the same time, my Inkscape doesn't display the selected nodes in the usual way. Also, although I can simultaneously move the nodes, I don't seem to be able to simultaneously manipulate their handles. Is that normal? This is with 0.48 under Windows 7.
- Robert
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013, Alejandro Castillo wrote:
I'm glad you find it useful. A little tip, you do not need to modify the nodes of each path separately. Select both objects with the selection tool, and then, using the node editing tool, you can select shared nodes of both pathsmaking a selection box around the nodes (click and drag around)
El 10/08/13 14:12, Maurice van Peursem escribió:
Thanks Alejandro,
I'm new to Inkscape, and this is indeed very helpful. I have yet to learn how to use all the path-modifying options. The only disadvantage is that once separated, you get 2 border paths that you will have to edit both is you want to change the border later. But this is good start.
Maurice
may be a solution, but do not know if it will be useful. For maps, you can trace the area around it, and then draw a line for the "frontiers". Then select both lines, and use the option "division" from path menu. I send an attached file with an example (quite horrible to see, but hopefully explanatory)
El 10/08/13 13:33, Robert Funnell escribió:
Maurice-
You may want to look at the thread on making maps from last May:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=519BAB8A.9070502%40wildintellect.com&forum_name=inkscape-userhttp://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=519BAB8A.9070502%40...
Unless things have changed, the answer is that for now it's better to maintain maps with some other tool.
- Robert
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013, Maurice van Peursem wrote:
Thanks, this helps a little. But the rectangle is only an example, the drawing I'm working on is more complicated. Take for instance the map of Europe, with all coutries painted in a different color. The path-segments on each border belong to two paths, around the two bordering countries. Now if I want to edit that border, I would like to edit only one path. Is that possible? Or do I have to draw each border twice?
Thanks for the help. Maurice
El 10/08/13 14:30, Robert Funnell escribió:
Alejandro -
I had just discovered this trick from an Adobe Illustrator thread and was trying it in Inkscape when I saw your message. When I select the two nodes at the same time, my Inkscape doesn't display the selected nodes in the usual way. Also, although I can simultaneously move the nodes, I don't seem to be able to simultaneously manipulate their handles. Is that normal? This is with 0.48 under Windows 7.
is normal, i think you can't manipulate both handles with the mouse, but i suppose you can do it with the keyboard. I have not been able to test every combination of keys, because the Spanish keyboard layout is a little different and some things require digital skills that I don't have (and a couple of extra fingers xD) but for example, rotate, mirror, move... i've tried and works.
this is the link to the node section of keyboard shorcuts: http://inkscape.org/doc/keys048.html # d0e3233
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013, Alejandro Castillo wrote:
El 10/08/13 14:30, Robert Funnell escribió:
Alejandro -
I had just discovered this trick from an Adobe Illustrator thread and was trying it in Inkscape when I saw your message. When I select the two nodes at the same time, my Inkscape doesn't display the selected nodes in the usual way. Also, although I can simultaneously move the nodes, I don't seem to be able to simultaneously manipulate their handles. Is that normal? This is with 0.48 under Windows 7.
is normal, i think you can't manipulate both handles with the mouse, but i suppose you can do it with the keyboard. I have not been able to test every combination of keys, because the Spanish keyboard layout is a little different and some things require digital skills that I don't have (and a couple of extra fingers xD) but for example, rotate, mirror, move... i've tried and works.
this is the link to the node section of keyboard shorcuts: http://inkscape.org/doc/keys048.html # d0e3233
Thanks for the pointer to those instructions.
FWIW, I've added something about this to my personal notes at http://audilab.bme.mcgill.ca/~funnell/swil_inkscape.html#sharedBoundaries Can anyone confirm my observation that the keystrokes to rotate a handle work but that the keystrokes to scale a handle do not work? The instructions for the keystrokes pointed to by Alejandro specify '(1 node selected)' in both cases so really neither of them should work.
- Robert
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