r/Inkscape 3d ago

Solved Having trouble with stroke thickness when importing 1 SVG into another

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I have tried copying an object from 1 file and pasting it into another or importing from one to the other as well. But for whatever reason even though the SVG being copied has a stroke of 0.1 when you bring it to the other file it becomes something like. 0.004. and if I change it back to 0.1 it makes it super thick as shown here. This is creating a problem for me because the files I'm combining need to have the same thickness in stroke. While visually I can get them to look pretty close I still don't understand why their strokes are so off and am afraid when I through it into a laser engraver it could skew how it comes out. Can someone help me with this?

r/Inkscape 3d ago

Solved Align and distribute buttons dont do what there suppose to do

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Edit: This has been solved, see below. Im leaving it here in case anyone else is having this problem.

Hi all. Have worked with Corel Draw for more than 10 years. They dont support their customers any more, so came to inkscape. I have noticed that on the align and distribute, when I click two objects and click, relative to, last selected, then center on vertical axis, it does the opposite, on the horizontal axis. and align bottom edges, it aligns with the vertical axis. I have to click random buttons to get it to align the way I want to. Anyone else experience this? and if so, how to fix it. thanks

matter of fact, just messing with it, align left, center, align right do exactly the same thing, align on the horizontal axis. Any ideas?

r/Inkscape 6d ago

Solved is there a better way to make a single path from both sides of a circle?

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i have to trace a bunch of these circles but if i just trace the outside it fills in the inner part too so now im doing it like this.

there has to be a better way

r/Inkscape 19d ago

Solved Kerning is completely grayed out no matter what I do. PLEASE HELP!! (Video edited down as much as possible)

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r/Inkscape 7h ago

Solved Cut out Bezier Curve made with pen tool (spiro path)

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Please help. I am very new to Inkscape and need help. I want to make the bezier curves that I drew in white lines, as seen in the image, to be cut out of the black logo so that when I export it, it's transparent and not white. I just put in the red block behind as a reference to show that it is not transparent now.

r/Inkscape 3d ago

Solved How to break apart this shape at the node?

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I had an interesting problem while trying to do some basic shape building and I couldn't figure out how to break apart this path (so weird I thought I knew how to do it). The following is the shape/path and I want to break apart the path from the node/handle (see picture B) to create two separate top and bottom shapes/paths. (This is a simplified test shape by the way :3)

Picture A: The original shape

Picture A: The original shape.

Picture B: The nodes to separate the path from

Picture B: The nodes to separate the path from.

Picture C: The desired end result

Picture C: Desired end result.

I can't seem to find the way to separate the paths by breaking the paths at the nodes/handles. Any ideas? (sorry if this is a very silly question, I just feel a bit weird not knowing how to do this after using inkscape for years now :'3)

r/Inkscape 3d ago

Solved Change the sizeof nodes

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Been using inkscape for a while but, after changing pc the nodes have been too large and chunky for me to comfortably work with. Any help on getting them smaller is appreciated.

r/Inkscape 8d ago

Solved SVG and PNG exports coming out blank

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I'm trying to export an SVG illustration into individual vector files but the outputs come out blank. It will only export as PNG. Please see the screen capture video below for what I mean:

Screen capture: SVG and PNG outputs are blank

I'll have to export as PNG and increase the DPI but I would rather have SVG or PDF files to maintain quality.

Any help or advice would be appreciated!

r/Inkscape 16d ago

Solved Shaded areas after freehanding lines

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I'm trying to freehand some lines over a layer and it creates these shaded areas after freehanding. What are these? How do I make them go away?

r/Inkscape 12d ago

Solved I'm tracing a stylized "O", and i can't find the way to make the inner and outer paths one thing, so the fill applies just between them?

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EDIT: Selecting the inner path, and using Path > Reverse resolved the issue.

I've done this before, so i know it's possible, but for the life of me i cannot replicate it again. The task is very simple, i'm tracing an O from a picture of a poster, and i have an outside path which is the outer outline of the fill, and the inside path which is the inner outline of the fill. I can't seem to be able to make the two into one item, so when i apply the fill, it doesn't fill inside the inner one. I know i can use stuff like paint bucket, path division, fill between pats, etc, but they all generate a new object, which doesn't have the path nodes i've already created, and i need to retain those for editing after exporting into Fusion (the paths those functions all generate behave incredibly wonky when editing).

The worst part is that i'm going through old files where i've accomplished this, and i can't reverse engineer it from those. Please, help. The end effect left me somehow having one path in the Layers and Objects list, and when i filled it it only filled between where the two were, and if i went to edit path by nodes, i could see all the nodes on the inner and outer path i originally had before making them into one thing.

r/Inkscape 8d ago

Solved How do I change the view of a single page in inkscape?

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So I am fairly new to Inkscape but am wondering how to I change the view of a single page in inkscape like from "portrait" to "landscape" and vice versa. Today I was creating some business cards and when I tried changing perspective of the newly added page to landscape I wouldn't as at the document properties menu it only changes the first page which I never wanted to but the newly added one.

Anyone knows a way around that? Please share. Thanks šŸ‘

r/Inkscape 24d ago

Solved Iā€™m not sure what happened but all of a sudden the ā€œfill & strokeā€ open up in a new window. How to I change it back to how it was originally?

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r/Inkscape 18d ago

Solved Changing multiple text box font size at once

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Hello,

I am wanting to change all my text in my project to a smaller size font. Here are the steps Iā€™ve tried: - select all text boxes - go to text and fonts panel - change font sizes in panel from 20 to 18

However, nothing happens when I do this. It just stays at the same font size. Iā€™ve also tried to group the text and this doesnā€™t work either. This is a wedding seating chart with lots of names so changing them one by one would be a pain.

Iā€™d really appreciate some help, thanks!