I try to construct a regularly spaced, diagonally striped pattern. Beginning with on diagonal line in the upper left corner, "tile clone" produces a mismatch between the columns and the rows. When I construct the pattern by hand and use it on an object I get similar mismatches between the pattern-tiles.
An example to visualize the problem: I fetched this pattern from openclipart.org:
http://openclipart.org/clipart//special/patterns/pattern-pinstripes-diagonal...
An object filled with this pattern looks fine.
Now, convert with "pattern to objects" (which I did to change the colour) and convert back with "objects to pattern".
An object filled with the resulting pattern shows the mismatch.
Then I changed the colour in the source, but there is a principal question: Is something wrong and if so, what? And why doesn't this affect the "pattern-pinstripes-diagonal" pattern? Maybe I just missed an important point in constructing patterns in inkscape?
Cheers,
Henning
On 11/29/06, Henning Lorenz <henning.lorenz@...2052...> wrote:
Then I changed the colour in the source, but there is a principal question: Is something wrong and if so, what? And why doesn't this affect the "pattern-pinstripes-diagonal" pattern? Maybe I just missed an important point in constructing patterns in inkscape?
It's hard to visualize what you're talking about without a sample or screenshot. However one thing you should be aware of is this: "Object to pattern" creates a rectangular pattern with its sides parallel to x/y axes. Only after that can you rotate or skew it. So if your existing pattern is rotated or skewed, then converting it to objects and then back to pattern will not give the same result. If you want to edit it, first rotate the pattern so it's rectangular, convert to objects, edit, convert to pattern, and rotate back to the original angle.
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Henning Lorenz wrote:
Subject: [Inkscape-user] pattern mismatch
I try to construct a regularly spaced, diagonally striped pattern. Beginning with on diagonal line in the upper left corner, "tile clone" produces a mismatch between the columns and the rows. When I construct the pattern by hand and use it on an object I get similar mismatches between the pattern-tiles.
An example to visualize the problem: I fetched this pattern from openclipart.org:
http://openclipart.org/clipart//special/patterns/pattern-pinstripes-diagonal...
An object filled with this pattern looks fine.
Now, convert with "pattern to objects" (which I did to change the colour) and convert back with "objects to pattern".
An object filled with the resulting pattern shows the mismatch.
Then I changed the colour in the source, but there is a principal question: Is something wrong and if so, what? And why doesn't this affect the "pattern-pinstripes-diagonal" pattern? Maybe I just missed an important point in constructing patterns in inkscape?
I created that pattern more or less in a text editor.
You may get wildly unusual results when using it in Inkscape as it wasn't created in Inkscape.
A lot of those patterns and gradients I created were partly intended to test Inkscape, since they should be correct reasonably SVG but were created in isolation of any of the development assumptions in inskcape/sodipodi.
Also I'm having trouble visualising the problem but I'm not really the one you need to explain it to but if your problem is non technical and by mismatch you mean gaps then you need to put extra long mitres on your lines. (There are some known rendering glitches in Inkscape so there are various possibilities as to what your problem might be.)
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