Converter objects in background

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roirosal
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Converter objects in background

Postby roirosal » Sat Dec 19, 2015 4:07 pm

I have some objects and I want converter in only object and will be the background. How do I do it?

Lazur
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Re: Converter objects in background

Postby Lazur » Sat Dec 19, 2015 9:51 pm

You can group objects together (Ctrl+G once they are selected),
move them to bottom (End)
create a new layer at the bottom (Shift+Ctrl+L for the layers panel)
move group to the bottom layer (Shift+PgDown)
and lock the bottom layer on the layers panel.
Then you can work on the layers above without risking any unwanted edit of the background.

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Re: Converter objects in background

Postby brynn » Sun Dec 20, 2015 2:41 am

Well now THAT was some amazing mind-reading!!

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Re: Converter objects in background

Postby Lazur » Sun Dec 20, 2015 5:16 am

Of course I can be wrong, and I'm also thinking original poster might want to change the page borders too (Shift+Ctrl+D if he is still reading this)
and/or the problem is related to raster images where you cannot add transparency effectively to make other objects a part in its background...
who knows?

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Re: Converter objects in background

Postby brynn » Sun Dec 20, 2015 10:01 pm

I actually have no idea what roirosal wants. Because of "converter" I think maybe something about Trace Bitmap or Object to Path. But really, no clue for me.


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