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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 19 14:25:09 +0000 2007 ------- AW: Fisrt of all: You may convert to contour after making thick lines and work with the derived geometry -> it's already there in some form. Next, it depends on what You want. If You want to scale the object relative to it's center, press and hold the ALT key when starting the interaction. If You want a real geometric 'Grow/Shrink' like with the lines getting thick (like painting with a fat circle along the object outline and taking the inner or outer created edge), this is not trivial. It is mostly manageable for convex polygons (not for biiig grows, think about short segment becoming completely covered), but really hard to solve geometrically for concave ones (You may take a look at the literature). Just experiment on a piece of paper with a rectangle with an additional point on one side moved to the inside: a simple concave polygon. Now try to shrink it. You will see that on one point the topology changes from one polygon to two triangles(!). Tell me if You have an algorythm sloving this mathematically. It's not impossible, but hard to do (don't forget the edge roundings involved, also don't forget that some edges are bezier curves which should not be broken down to line segments, etc...). As You see, i have already thought about/expermineted with this stuff. I have some ideas for the future how to solve this, but no time ATM. But i would also love to have that feature. For the moment - if it's not solved for You with one of the first annotations - there is no easy way to do something like this, sorry. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
