[Synfig-devl] [ synfig-Feature Requests-1807823 ] Ability to Squash, Stretch, and rotate groups

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Feature Requests item #1807823, was opened at 2007-10-05 02:15
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Submitted By: GustoEater (gustoeater)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Ability to Squash, Stretch, and rotate groups

Initial Comment:
I can't find a way to resize or rotate a group since they only have a single duck.  It would be very helpful to be able to squash and stretch a simple object like a circle.  I find that I am using blines to make ovals, etc instead of using the circle tool which would be easier.

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Comment By: Genete (genete)
Date: 2008-10-26 23:42

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To pixelgeek: This can be done by using Groups. Group any pile of layer
spread in the layer tree. Then you can select them all by double clicking
the group folder. Once selected just press CTRL-A to select all the ducks.
Use any of the rotate, scale, etc. tools to morph accordingly to your
taste.

To GustoEater: If all the layers are in a paste canvas layer you just need
to press the "Select All Children layers" button to apply the
transformation to all the layers at the same time.

Let's close this feature request?

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Comment By: Pixelgeek (pxegeek)
Date: 2007-11-13 02:18

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dooglus, your proposal works for each individual layer or encapsulated
layers.  Gustoeater is talking about groups of layers, which may be
non-contiguous in the layer navigator and non-encapsulateable.  E.g.
suppose there was two circles for one eye, a bline for a nose, then two
more circles for the other eye.  You have all the circle grouped together
as 'eyes'.  You don't want to put eyes and nose on the same encapsulated
canvas to stretch them all, but selecting the 'eyes' group should allow you
to stretch the eyes without affecting the nose.  I can't see how it would
work with the current Synfig architecture, short of automatically
encapsulating and adding the linked transform/rotate layers for each
element of the group individually.  

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Comment By: dooglus (dooglus)
Date: 2007-10-05 14:50

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To stretch or squash all the layers under the current layer:
  "Menu > Layer > New Layer > Distortions > Stretch"

To rotate or zoom:
  "Menu > Layer > New Layer > Transform > Rotate"
  "Menu > Layer > New Layer > Transform > Zoom"

Also, if you encapsulate a bunch of layers and select the resulting
encapsulation layer, there's a 'Zoom' parameter on the encapsulation
layer.

Is that what you were wanting, or did you mean something else?

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