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8.3. Marker dialog panel

The ‘ marker ’ element defines the graphics that is to be used for drawing arrowheads or polymarkers on a given ‘path’, ‘line’, ‘polyline’ or ‘polygon’ element.

The marker dialog panel is launched from it's icon Image marker-cutomize.png in the menu and is displayed in grab mode.

See creating , using markers showcases for interactive demonstrations.

Figure 8.3. Markers tool

Markers tool

The panel allows to edit/copy/delete a marker definition,

To add a new one, drawn it, select elements and use the action marker definition from the selection menu.

Select a marker in the list, then change attributes :

To change the colors (stroke or fill) of an element of the marker, select it in the list and click on the renderer rectangle of the color to change it with the color chooser or remove it with the check-box. .

Finally the samples box show the renderer of the selected marker with different stroke widths.

All changes are applied with the apply button and the current marker is applied to the style property (marker-start, marker-mid, marker-end) of the selected object.

To directly apply a marker, use the selection tool Image svg143.svg .

Figure 8.4. Marker chooser

Marker chooser

The selected marker is drawn with the current scale of the drawing and style property (marker-start, marker-mid, marker-end).