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Help Using Inkscape => Inkscape Beginners' Questions => Topic started by: Agrajag on October 19, 2018, 07:38:35 AM

Title: Measured Offsets of Copies?
Post by: Agrajag on October 19, 2018, 07:38:35 AM

I'd like to take an image and duplicate it three more times slightly offset from the first image (essentially placing each one a bit higher and slightly more right from the previous one). How can I do this and make sure each one is symmetrically offset the same amount?

Title: Re: Measured Offsets of Copies?
Post by: Moini on October 19, 2018, 09:39:10 AM

Either:

- use a grid and snap to it (File > Document properties, and the snap bar at the right, where you activate snapping to grid and also snapping object corners)
- use the tiled clones dialog, if you have more than just a few rectangles that you want to align that way
- most primitive version: create a rectangle that you will use as 'spacer object' and snap to that.

Title: Re: Measured Offsets of Copies?
Post by: Agrajag on October 20, 2018, 05:47:35 AM

Thanks. Great ideas all.

Title: Re: Measured Offsets of Copies?
Post by: brynn on October 20, 2018, 06:57:55 PM

What kind of image is it?  Is it a photo, or a vector drawing, or other kind of raster image?

Without knowing more details, I would say just select it and use the arrow keys.  One press of any arrow keys moves the selection by 2 px.  Shift + arrow moves by 10 times the step (which is 2 px by default, but can be changed).  Alt + arrow key moves by.....I can't remember, but I think it's 0.2 px.

So

 - duplicate
 - up arrow key
 - right arrow key

Or also use Shift or Alt as needed.  Then repeat.