Inkscape Forum Inkscape > Slicing and selecting

Hi,
Found myself trying to slice-up a page and realised that I can't select 
the
rects that are 'invisible'. I make them alpha 0% so they won't show, but 
then
I can't select them.

I followed HeathenX's tut on youtube, doing everything the same way, but 
he
selects the hidden rects click-click no problem, I can't do that on my 
end.

Is there some trick to this?

\d

Donn,

I just tried this.  From what I can see, and I don't understand why, it
looks like you can only select a zero alpha object by "grabbing" at the
bounding box.  Move your cursor slowly across the screen.  When it 
changes
from the normal point to the cross/directional/move cursor, that's your 
cue
that you've found the bounding box.

Hope that helps,

Aaron

On Tuesday, 05 August 2008 07:48:27 Aaron Elmquist wrote:
> I don't understand why, it
> looks like you can only select a zero alpha object by "grabbing" at the
> bounding box.  
Don't work at all for me, the cursor simply does not change :(

But... If I view in outline mode, then I can select (and see) them fine, 
so
that's a work-around.

Thx.
\d

Glad you found something that worked for you.

Donn wrote the following on 8/5/2008 1:59 AM:
> \d
They changed the behavior in v0.46. There were rather long discussions 
on Launchpad (bug 196453)
regarding this issue as well as the InkscapeForum. The work around that 
I have been using is not
making the transparent items 0% transparent. Instead I have been using 
1%. In my tests the
difference between 0 and 1 is unnoticeable.

Launchpad:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/196453

InkscapeForum
http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1184

heathenx

My slicing workflow is this:

1. Add a new layer "Slices"
2. Set the layer opacity to 40%
3. Create the rectangles I want for the slices (giving them a 'yellow
tango' color makes em more fun to work with)
4. Select the rectangle I want to export, and hide the layer
(Shift+Ctrl+L to show the layer dialogue)
5. Export!

This way you keep your slices on top of the whole site mockup, and it
makes things easier.

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:24 PM, heathenx <heathenx@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thx.
> InkscapeForum
> Inkscape-user mailing list
> Inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user
>



--
Panos Laganakos

This is exactly what I do!  Then you don't have to fight with the
invisible rectangles when you're working with the rest of the art!
(besides websites, I also often do this to save a "cropped" version of
printed materials with a bleed edge)

JF

On Wednesday, 06 August 2008 22:24:37 Panos Laganakos wrote:
> 4. Select the rectangle I want to export, and hide the layer
Genius! Thanks.

\d