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Help Using Inkscape => Inkscape Beginners' Questions => Topic started by: Mari13 on August 26, 2018, 12:27:59 AM

Title: filters extending the boundary of the backround?
Post by: Mari13 on August 26, 2018, 12:27:59 AM

I've had this happen to me, in which i've finished a piece and have everything in place, but think that i'd like to add some effects! So I go to the filter, add one, and the objects boundary escapes the piece background, then I just scale everything, but it can be inconvenient when I liked how everything was.

https://imgur.com/a/veY5bGw heres a quick image of  what I mean. What should I do?

Title: Re: filters extending the boundary of the backround?
Post by: Lazur on August 26, 2018, 03:50:18 AM

You should worry not, that's of the built in filters default settings.
It doesn't change the visual appearance.
There are cases though where there are some artifacts within that filtered area outside the original object though, but not with the built-in ones.

Blurring, glow effects and dropshadow exceed the original object areas and usually it's the other way around -it is necessary to expand the filtered area so the effect won't be cut short.

All in all if you don't like the visual bounding box expanding, switch to geometric bounding box in the preferences.
(Which shouldn't expand if you add a thicker stroke either.)