Is there a way to get inkscape to paste several selected items to past above their original object in the stacking order stead of pasting all the objects at the top of the stacking order. if that makes sense. at one point i swear it worked like this. i feel like i have changed a setting at some point. hopefully i'm not crazy.
I see what you mean, but I don't think copy-paste ever worked that way. To do this, you need to select one object at a time then [ctrl+c] [ctrl+alt+v].
The 2nd page supports a pasting sequence, based on selection order.
So for example if we have three objects selected, the sequence 1,1,2,2,2,3 would paste 2 * object one, 3 * object two and 1 * object three into the new layer in that order.
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Is there a way to get inkscape to paste several selected items to past above their original object in the stacking order stead of pasting all the objects at the top of the stacking order. if that makes sense. at one point i swear it worked like this. i feel like i have changed a setting at some point. hopefully i'm not crazy.
I am not aware of this behaviour, unless it was from an earlier version of Inkscape.
It's fairly easy to do in code. If anyone else wants it I will post.
It might actually be an idea to have a look at https://inkscape.org/~pakin/%E2%98%85simple-inkscape-scripting
If you want to do some advanced pasting maybe.
The video I have attached does not use the above extension, just simple python.
In my case, pasted objects are inserted immediately above the copied object in the stacking order (z-order). Inkscape 1.2.1 and 1.3_dev on MacOS.
I think what the OP was asking for, if you have 3 items A, B, C
If you select A, B, C at the same time that the pasting should be
AABBCC rather than ABCABC ?
I see what you mean, but I don't think copy-paste ever worked that way. To do this, you need to select one object at a time then [ctrl+c] [ctrl+alt+v].
I've added a 2nd page to this extension ( just on gitlab for the moment, not replaced the version on inkscape.org )
https://gitlab.com/inklinea/objects-to-new-layer
The 2nd page supports a pasting sequence, based on selection order.
So for example if we have three objects selected, the sequence 1,1,2,2,2,3 would paste 2 * object one, 3 * object two and 1 * object three into the new layer in that order.