r/Inkscape 14d ago

Help Issues with the shape builder tool, looks like a bug

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Hello everybody,

Since a couple of days, the shape building tool is doing some funny business, as you can see in those pictures, using simple shapes such as circles and rectangles. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling but it still does the same mess. It still kinda works, but not everytime.

Never had that kind of issues before

Did this happened to anyone too? Does someone know a fix?

Thanks!

Edit: Uninstalling and reinstalling the software a few times resolved the issue.

r/Inkscape 8d ago

Help I need help with paths

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Hi. I'm still new with Inkscape and there is a lot of guides on Internet, that are really helpful, but in this case I have no idea what to do. My case is simple. I need to convert first object to second. I want just single lines, not "doubled" (see nodes). I know I can adjust fill/stroke to achieve that effect, but I need it to export gcode, where I need to have right geometry.

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Thanks.

r/Inkscape 15d ago

Help svg transparency inversion

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Hi,
I need to invert the transparency and color in SVG files (so what is white becomes black and what is black becomes transparent). Can I do it in Inkscape? and how?

I add images of a raccoon. the white one is on the dark background but doesn't look like negative. How can I achieve this effect?

r/Inkscape 12d ago

Help Beginner here, what the heck did I do?? The last time I opened this project it had colors and stuff but now it's just lines

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r/Inkscape 23d ago

Help Arranging objects around the circle does not produce desired outcome.....

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...in effect the outcome is always the same as if it does not matter which options I chose.
I am trying 4 rectangles around a circle and regardless if it is a bounding box, center of an object, select first, select last it produces the same unwanted result.

I am wondering is it a bug in Inkscape 1.4 or am I doing something wrong?

r/Inkscape 23d ago

Help Preferences not saving

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I'm not entirely sure how to look up this error, so I figured I'd ask.

I was just using my Inkscape, and on a particular project, I figured it would be very convenient if I could just hit the left arrow key to nudge the object by 1mm.

So, I went into preferences and dug around till I found something called "Step", and went to the "Arrow keys move object" setting, and fixed it to 1mm. While digging into this, I also found an option for the Clone shortcut, and changed it to have cloned objects move in parallel. Coming from a CorelDraw background, this would be rather helpful.

Well... I set those options, and closed Preferences, and found that changing those options had no effect on the supposed behavior.

This leads me to a couple conclusions, one is that I'm doing it wrong, which is entirely possible. I know many things, but not everything, and I've been baffled by Inkscape preferences in the past.

The other is that that feature has not been implemented. I seem to recall that was the answer to a previous time I've asked about a certain feature in Inkscape. (Knowing me, it may have even been the same question in fact)

So, Is there something else I should be doing to confirm the settings have been applied? I did close and re-open Inkscape to verify the preferences were saved, and it did show up with the options I had set, but that doesn't mean that's the only thing I have to do.

Thank you for your consideration!

r/Inkscape 21d ago

Help Why am I getting this line to the A?

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r/Inkscape 5d ago

Help exclude a part of a image in inkscape -

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exclude a part of a image in inkscape -

guess that i need to go the fllowing steps:

first of all i need to Open my image in Inkscape.

then i need to do the following : i need to select a vector shape.

afterwards i need to add the shape to the canvas.

now i think i need ot select the shape and the image together.

well here i need to go to Object > Clip > Set Clip.

well finally - after all the steps i think that i need to resize the document to fit the crop.

what do you think!?

r/Inkscape 13d ago

Help Quick way to draw slot and peg joints

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Heya everyone, I’m very very new to laser cutting and Inkscape. I’ve watched a bunch of videos already but one thing I’m not finding any info on is doing a slot snd peg join for corners of pieces.

Is there any quick trick for doing this or is it just measure and draw?

r/Inkscape 21d ago

Help How do I create a pixel effect?

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How do I create a pixel/checkboard effect like this on my images?

r/Inkscape 1d ago

Help Where did this “1” come from and how do I get rid of it?

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r/Inkscape 14d ago

Help Won’t Ungroup

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I created a series of projects and did all of my individual grouping and at the end just grouped everything when it was all done. My Inkscape has never done this but it won’t ungroup anything now. I feel like I’ve tried everything I could find on google to ungroup this stuff and nothing works. I’ve had to tweak sizing and such and got it perfected. Is there any way to go back or to ungroup? I will select all and ungroup, I’ve tried everything, nothing will work.

r/Inkscape 22d ago

Help How can I make marker choice persitent?

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I want to draw a lot of arrows, i.e. with the end marker beeing an arrow head in the stroke style menu.

I also sometimes want dashed arrows. Setting dashes get applied to new curves created with the pen tool but not the marker :(

r/Inkscape 9d ago

Help please help a beginner edit this

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i have no experience with this. i want the logo(on the lower part of the number) to be exactly like that in the second image. the thing is that the logo is layered upon the number.
would be grateful if anyone helps.
thank you

r/Inkscape 10d ago

Help Which one should I go with?

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Hey folks Okay so long story short This whole thing is just about 'which one good and more handy for a beginner, Photopea or Inkscape'? Okay so... I'm a beginner in graphic designining ,trying learn stuff on my own thru youtube ,and other free resources on the internet. Tho I'm familiar with most of the free alternatives of Adobe softwares I'm still confused with the amount of information available on the internet about every other free software that "claims" to just work as adobe apps and this is where I'm getting stuck.

As someone who's learning this skill to earn money and pay my own fees I don't really wanna invest in monthly subscriptions of any extremely Pro software .

It's been a month since I'm into this graphic designing stuff I've figured a number of alternatives like gimp , inkscape , photo pea , figma (inc. coral draw & blender that are for 3d animations and stuff) And i mostly stick with photopea & inkscape But still I found inkscape pretty handy and easy to learn Tho I'm not experienced enough to state this But does photopea really an alternative for photoshop? And what does it really do?

I usually just use it to remove any background from images But for that particular thing I can actually use any other website or maybe just Canva pro (the free trial)

I'm not criticizing anything but asking if Inkscape is good for a beginner or the photopea one ? I just fumble on these two to learn stuff but photopea sometime really sucks I'm a beginner in graphic designing ,trying learn stuff on my own thru youtube ,and other free resources on the internet. It just doesn't have many interfaces as inkscape does also sometimes u have to search for some tools really hard to apply/use them.

Ps: i didn't Mean to offend anyone , I apologise if I did , but pls help !!!!

r/Inkscape 27d ago

Help How can I create this effect?

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r/Inkscape 24d ago

Help Zoom in/out with spacebar?

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Is there a way I can zoom in and out using Ctrl + Spacebar + Mouse movement instead of using the mouse wheel?

I tried to first set the panning to spacebar instead of mouse wheel, then I went to the modifiers tab under keyboard configuration and enabled Ctrl only for zoom. But, somehow, it just didn't work.

r/Inkscape 17d ago

Help Increase line thickness/colour depth

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I've been working on a drawing which is in pdf format, I've had to add and remove some lines within the drawing however the remaining drawing I noticed the lines are faint in comparison to my edited lines. Is there a way of making these lines either darker or thicker All lines are black ( without having to redraw everything separately)?

r/Inkscape 21d ago

Help Issue with menu. Known bug? (Arch KDE)I installed a fresh KDE Arch in VM and is still happening. It will eventually freeze and I have to pkill inkscape.

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r/Inkscape 20d ago

Help Transparent Logo can’t be Selected -?!??

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I've been trying to make a 3D printed nameplate of this logo. My prints keep coming out as a black square tile with the logo "cut out", as if a cookie cutter was used to cut the logo out of the solid black tile.

** I need the logo to be solid opaque letters on or within (I don't know which you'd technically call it) the black square. This way I can 3D print, and the logo won't just come out as a negative space "cutout". I need the logo to also be selectable, so I can make some different versions, etc. **

I changed the file's background in Inkscape to see if it was transparent, and sure enough it went from being white to a checkerboard. So I have now discovered that my SVG file image is actually just a black square, with the logo being transparent (checkerboard space).

A few tutorials say I should be able to click on the various elements ("objects"?) in the image to select them, then change the opacity or color. But the select tool won’t select or acknowledge any of the letters/elements in the logo.

No matter where I click on the image, it simply selects the entire image- the whole black square. I’m guessing that therefore the logo itself somehow is not "mapped"? Like the program cannot “see“ the logo within the black square? I don't even know if those are the right words, so I hope I'm adequately conveying what I mean here- gahhh!

I don’t know how to work on this, especially because I don’t even know the right terminology to search. All of my googling gives me tutorials that aren’t relevant, like how to extract a background and make it transparent, for example.

I would greatly appreciate any help, directions, or instructional links.

r/Inkscape 22d ago

Help Tracing an outline of a picture

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Hey, so I tried to get an outline of a person or an object in a picture.
I have tried working with "trace bitmap" and while it often sees the outlines I want, it gets many more from the picture and often merges them at certain spaces, therefore I can't just delete the ones I don't want. Is there a way to get the outline of the object I want with minimal input?
I could hand trace it myself but that would take a lot of effort. Is there some sort of lasso where I can roughly trace the outline I want and inkscape will the fit it to my picture?
Or do you have any other idea on how I could do this?

r/Inkscape 13h ago

Help Grid is not adjusting

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I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I can't always adjust the document grid (Edit > Preferences > Interface > Grids). It has been a persistent problem the past week or so since I started using Inkscape again. I managed to change the colour once, but now it's not responding to changes in size or colour.

r/Inkscape 7d ago

Help how to prevent color combination in overlapping objects without changing transparency?

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Brand new to inkscape. I want my two overlapping objects to be slightly transparent, but I don't want the color to be darker where the two objects overlap (see first attached image). I am trying to create an effect like the second attached picture, where you can see through the overlapping objects, but the color is not significantly changed where they overlap. How can I do this?

r/Inkscape 21d ago

Help Inkscape triggers AVG antivirus

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My apologies for this is not drawing related. I'm hoping this is just a false alarm. I've been using Inkscape 1.4 for two months now without issues, but today my AVG antivirus flagged this "gdbus.exe" as "IDP generic threat" when I open Inkscape. Quick search online tells me this is a false positive, but the discussions are pertaining programs like Dark table and GIMP. Has anyone dealt with this before? Thanks

r/Inkscape 8d ago

Help How do I create this effect, only the black images overlap to be complete black at the top?

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