Scratchpad cloningtutorial

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Cloning and Tile Clones

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Basics

Clones provide a way dupicating an object, yet keeping the object's style and shape linked so that any changes to the original are reflected in all the clones.

For example, take the following two stars: the one on the left is the original, the one on the right is the clone. Try selecting the original, and changing the amount of corners on the star or the fill color.

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/images/Cloningtutorial_simpleexample.svg

Now both the original and the clone would have changed instantly when you altered the original. Here is the result of adding 5 more corners and changing the fill color to the original:

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/images/Cloningtutorial_simpleexampleresult.svg

If attempts are made to change the clone, it will not work, as the clone is still linked to the original.

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