Support editing of multiple paths/objects?

Asked by Martin Eklund

If you have one selected object/path and go into "edit-mode" (F2) everything works fine.
But if you have two or or more, and go into "edit-mode" (F2), you cannot edit anything.

This would be very useful, since you could move/scale "globally"/(or a selection of your document),
it's hard to describe how powerful this would be, but I used this kind of editing a lot in 3dstudio R4.
For instance if you have larger complex figures and a lot of smaller objects on top, and you need more
space in the middle, you can just select half, or a corner, and "move" the entire set in _one_ _drag_ to
get what you want. Now you need to edit every large object manually and then move the small
ones using object multiselection.

Is this kind of support planned?

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Oleg Koptev (koptev-oleg) said :
#1

Hello,

Yes, exactly that feature (multipath editing) is planned and developed yet.
So wait a little bit :)

Cheers

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Martin Eklund (sanncyniker) said :
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Excellent, makes my day! :)
Keep up the great work!

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su_v (suv-lp) said :
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related:
Bug #170561 “Node editing on more than one object”:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170561>
Release notes draft for the upcoming Inkscape 0.48
<http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.48#Node_Tool>

There are development snapshot builds for win32 and osx available if you feel up to testing unstable versions.