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I have a design which has knots in it and am struggling to fill the areas I want. I read about inkscape's fill methods and believe I have selected the right one. I have also added the knot effect to my diagram and specified which subpaths should be on top and which on the bottom. However, when I fill it, it misses to fill one region - please can someone shed more light on this? Please refer to attached diagram - you can see the white region on the middle section - this should be filled.
Regards,
Kunal.
Filling knots in inkscape
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kunalbedse
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Filling knots in inkscape
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Re: Filling knots in inkscape
The 'Knot' path effect only works on the crossings of the path and cannot handle or adjust its fill with the path effect applied. It is not possibly (with available fill rules and path logic) to fill the 'knotted' path as you'd like to without either breaking it apart or at least closing the sub-paths as needed (using the node tool) - and this can only be done after converting the live path effect into a static path (menu 'Path > Object to Path').
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kunalbedse
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Re: Filling knots in inkscape
That is perfect - exactly what I needed !!! Thanks a lot for your help!!
Re: Filling knots in inkscape
Is anyone else having the problem with this effect (knot LPE) that everything works except when you try to use the node tool to switch the crossings - and then Inkscape quits without any warning or comment - or apology (sorry, inkscape has to close due to ...)
In fairness, i am using a 0.48 pre version. It has worked so well that i removed all previous versions already.
i get around it by converting object to path as soon as i apply the LPE.
In fairness, i am using a 0.48 pre version. It has worked so well that i removed all previous versions already.
i get around it by converting object to path as soon as i apply the LPE.
Your mind is what you think it is.
Re: Filling knots in inkscape
druban wrote:Is anyone else having the problem with this effect (knot LPE) that everything works except when you try to use the node tool to switch the crossings - and then Inkscape quits without any warning or comment - or apology (sorry, inkscape has to close due to ...)
The document attached to my previous comment was created with Inkscape 0.47 (to verify the steps with the current stable version). When repeating and testing the Knot path effect in current development builds (0.47+devel r9620, r9623) and the prerelase version (0.48pre1, 0.48.x r9613) I did notice that the new node tool is less stable when editing the Knot path effect parameters (random crashes when dragging the switcher on certain paths, or when repeatedly changing the knot type on certain nodes) and gives inconsistent results with certain path segments (closing straight lines).
As a result I filed Bug #606859 in Inkscape: “Knot LPE ignores not-redundant 'z' segments”. My plans are to further investigate the crashes and file a separate report for those (unless it turns out that the underlying issue has already been filed or someone beats me to it
).