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by Septimus
Thu Jul 14, 2011 7:08 am
Forum: Help with using Inkscape
Topic: How to tell which objects are selected
Replies: 5
Views: 944

Re: How to tell which objects are selected

Well, if you select one blue object, and one red object, it tells you "fill:different" and "2 objects selected in layer Layer1." Great, but what if there's also a green object? Have you selected red and blue, red and green, or blue and green? And some of my layers have large obje...
by Septimus
Wed Jul 13, 2011 2:11 pm
Forum: Help with using Inkscape
Topic: How to tell which objects are selected
Replies: 5
Views: 944

Re: How to tell which objects are selected

Thanks for the welcome! I have a feeling I'll like it here. An object manager, like in Illustrator, would be super nice. I hope that happens! Those ideas are useful, though, they don't really solve the problem with multiple objects. The tab trick is also quite good, although I'm not sure why sometim...
by Septimus
Tue Jul 12, 2011 4:34 pm
Forum: Help with using Inkscape
Topic: How to tell which objects are selected
Replies: 5
Views: 944

How to tell which objects are selected

I'm having a hard time figuring out which objects are selected. I know selected objects have a box around them, but I do a lot of tiny work on big objects, so the box is often outside of my view. The XML editor isn't bad when only one object is selected, but it doesn't seem to indicate more than one...

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