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Comment 3 for bug 1456183

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote : Re: Pattern along path width and EPS failed

On 2015-05-18 14:37 (+0200), ali wrote:> I am using Inkscape 0.91. I have noticed 2 bugs:

We cannot track multiple, unrelated issues in the same bug report. Let's focus this report on your installation issues with Ghostscript for EPS input.

> 1/ On Path Effect Editor, you cannot increase the width of a path.
> Example, if you draw something using the Spiro tool, and you click on
> Path Effect Editor to select an effect such as "Pattern along path", put
> a number in the width, it does NOT do anything.
>
> In the previous version, it worked.

AFAIU this is a question about usage, not a bug.

The spiro spline path effect itself has no width setting (never had), and it is independent of the path effect 'Pattern along Path'. The same applies to the 'Spiro splines' drawing mode of the pen and pencil tool: just using the mode by itself does not and never did add a 'Pattern along Path' path effect automagically.

The 'Pattern along Path' effect was used in Inkscape 0.48 when using a shape other than 'None' for drawing paths with the pen or pencil tools.

If your question (or claimed bug) is about adjusting the width of paths created with the pen or pencil tool using a shape like 'Triangle in' or 'Triangle out' in Inkscape 0.91 - such variable-width paths no longer use the the 'Pattern-along-Path' path effect in Inkscape 0.91: they use the new Powerstroke path effect. You can adjust the width of a Powerstroke path effect on-canvas with the node tool by dragging the pink knot(s).

See also:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.91#PowerStroke

Note that using 'Ellipse' as shape when drawing new paths with the pen or pencil tool will still use the 'Pattern along Path' path effect in Inkscape 0.91, and adjusting the width of such 'Pattern along Path' path effect in the path effect editor works in Inkscape 0.91 just the same way as in Inkscape 0.48.

I would recommend to take this issue to the 'Anwsers' section here at launchpad.net, or to the inkscapeforum.com or the user mailing list first, to clarify intentional changes and new features in Inkscape 0.91, before filing a separate bug report (discuss with other users first how to work with variable-width paths in Inkscape 0.91).