managing multiple objects

[Wichman]

Is there a way to manipulate multiple objects simultaneously?

As in the pattern for a flag in lesson three (bonus). Is there a way to select the flag stripes all at once and make them curve (as in a flag blowing in the wind)? Or would you have to create one stripe the way you want it and then duplicate it?

 

[jollyred]

There is a cloning tool on Inkscape that I think will do that.  I haven't used it, and only read about it some time ago, so I may be wrong.  Look it up in the help manual instructions and see if it will do what you want.

Tom

[Dan]

This video may get you in the right direction. It's pretty neat if nothing else. Could be used to make some optical illusions.

 

Edited December 31, 2021 by Dan

[Dan]

This may work better for you. It works but you may have to make final adjustments to the finished size to make it look right.

There are several methods to do this. Here's another

1. Copy the graphic. Then choose the Bézier tool.

2. In the tool options, choose the option that says "Bend from Clipboard".

3. Draw a curve with the Bézier tool.

A nice feature of using a Bend path effect is that you also get an interactive control to adjust the width of the graphic.

[Wichman]

Thank you for the replies. Every time I think I take a step forward, it feels like I take two back. Here's what I'm trying to do; make a pattern in this style, with the vines leaves and such. The pattern I'm working on is a "Welcome" sign but in Finnish "tervetuloa":

 

 

I just spent two days figuring out how I had messed up the program; I could not get Inkscape to allow me to bend a Bézier  curve and have the curve stay on the page (the curve would be in red and the effect would vanish if I clicked anywhere else in the drawing, turns out I had turned on a path effect (spiro spline) and didn't know it.

I can get close to the effect I need with the Bézier tool + clone. That's to make the vines. Still not sure why not all the fonts work. The work around there is to use Libre Office draw and then port the letters into Inkscape as a drawing, then convert to objects then to paths.

 

[Wichman]

Holy moly!

Just finished figuring out what has been going on and what a ride.

Long story short; there are many versions of Linux. The Inkscape that won't print or handle fonts is not made for my Linux, so I reverted to the highest level that will work (prints and handles the fonts), and also installed 1.1.1 (erase feature works on this one). Now all I have to do is keep the two versions straight in my head.