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The Book of Inkscape
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The Book of Inkscape

by Dmitry Kirsanov
September 2009
Intermediate to advanced
472 pages
16h 45m
English
No Starch Press
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16.4 Chaining Clones

Duplicating (4.4 Copying, Cutting, Pasting, and Duplicating) or copying and pasting a clone gives you another clone of the same original. (You can copy and then paste a clone into a different document but only together with its original; if you try to paste a clone alone, it will end up being orphaned and invisible.) Duplicating an existing clone is often convenient, as this duplicate will also get the first clone’s own transform and style, if it had any. Of course, you can also get another clone simply by cloning the original again.

Moreover, nothing prevents you from cloning a clone object itself. The resulting object—a clone of a clone—will still display the content of its ultimate original, but its link to it is no longer ...

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