Cloning groups
Let’s take, for example, a sheet of stickers. We could just copy/paste it into a bunch of new stickers and arrange them evenly throughout the page; however, we don’t want to re-do all this arrangement just to edit the sticker. Thus, we can use clones to do the work for us.
Our stickers are probably made of more than one object, however. Fortunately, Inkscape supports cloning groups, so all we need to do is group all of our sticker parts together, then clone that group to clone the whole sticker and all its parts.
Figure 10.4 shows a sticker I’ve made of many different vector parts, which are grouped, cloned, then arranged on a sheet.
Figure 10.4 – Changing part of the grouped original changes all the clones of the group
As you can see, clicking into the group allows us to edit parts of the original sticker, such as the gradient I used for the tea color. You can see how cloning a group can be quite a time...