Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape 4.8 outset/inset behavior
Attached is Outset_Test.svg The path was created with Ctrl-K. Inkscape step parameter has been set to 56.25px (5/8") The Outset results are very strange. Any info would be appreciated.
- Susan
Can you attach the SVG file that originally exposed the unexpected behavior of the 'Path > Outset' command?
~suv
Attached is a 2nd file, Outset_Test_2, which has two objects which look exactly the same: the pink object was created with several path statements and has not yet been transformed into a single closed path via Ctrl-K, the green object is a single closed path created by one path statement. - Susan
Can you attach the SVG file that originally exposed the unexpected behavior of the 'Path > Outset' command?
~suv
On 29/8/10 17:03, Susan Spencer wrote:
Attached is a 2nd file, Outset_Test_2, which has two objects which look exactly the same: the pink object was created with several path statements and has not yet been transformed into a single closed path via Ctrl-K, the green object is a single closed path created by one path statement.
'Ctrl+K' does not create closed paths, it adds the selected paths as sub-paths into one big path, not touching the node types nor adding connecting segments or joining coinciding nodes.
Use the node tool to join end/start-nodes of sub-paths or insert segments between unconnected sub-paths, and to remove redundant segments.
hth, ~suv
On 29/8/10 16:43, Susan Spencer wrote:
Attached is Outset_Test.svg The path was created with Ctrl-K. Inkscape step parameter has been set to 56.25px (5/8") The Outset results are very strange. Any info would be appreciated.
Inspect your path with the node tool: 'Ctrl-K' just combines paths (i.e. former separate paths turn into sub-paths but are not joined at the start/end nodes). Besides that, the main problem was a duplicate path segment at the bottom with reversed path direction which caused the unexpected results of 'Path > Outset'. In the attached drawing I moved the different sub-paths of the original path to make them visible and numbered the nodes (in path direction).
hth, ~suv
On 29/8/10 17:13, ~suv wrote:
On 29/8/10 16:43, Susan Spencer wrote:
Attached is Outset_Test.svg The path was created with Ctrl-K. Inkscape step parameter has been set to 56.25px (5/8") The Outset results are very strange. Any info would be appreciated.
Inspect your path with the node tool: 'Ctrl-K' just combines paths (i.e. former separate paths turn into sub-paths but are not joined at the start/end nodes). Besides that, the main problem was a duplicate path segment at the bottom with reversed path direction which caused the unexpected results of 'Path > Outset'. In the attached drawing I moved the different sub-paths of the original path to make them visible and numbered the nodes (in path direction).
Minor correction: not the redundant path segment with reversed direction was responsible for the unexpected result: trying a better explanation...
As noted in the manual page [1], when applying 'Outset' on open paths the outset path is closed. The same applies to each sub-path: it gets closed and the closed path is outset. Thus a straight line segment is not 'offset' but outset on all sides. Each sub-path of your pattern is outset as separate shape (see attached drawing trying to illustrate).
hth, ~suv
[1] http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-Editing.html#Paths-Offsets
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