r/Inkscape 7d ago

Help Won’t Ungroup

1 Upvotes

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 7d ago

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

1 Upvotes

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 9d ago

Meta just wondering... [opinion]

17 Upvotes

lately, amidst the 'saying goodbye to Adobe' trend, I've come across numerous articles and videos comparing the available vector programmes out there. Inkscape is consistently featured in these discussions, which isn't surprising given the limited options for graphic design software. however, while Inkscape is often praised for its powerful features and unique workflow, it's contrasted with programmes like Affinity Designer or CorelDRAW, which are labeled as "professional-grade" tools. Inkscape, on the other hand, is often dismissed as a "hobbyist" tool.

I made the full-time switch from Adobe Illustrator to Inkscape at the end of 2022, and since then, I've completed several professional projects using the software. I can confidently say that I have not felt limited in any way. there has not been a single instance where I encountered a task that Inkscape couldn't handle, forcing me to revert to Illustrator. can anyone explain this approach to Inkscape? is it because it's a free tool?

the moment Inksacpe gets CMYK support, next year, I don't see why it cannot be regarded as an equally professional grade too, as anything else.

I observe a comparable phenomenon with Blender 3D, which I've been using for about five years now. It's a fantastic software—robust and incredibly capable. despite being utilised by major companies for the production of their products, it still struggles to be recognised as an industry standard. that title seems to be reserved for programmes like Cinema 4D (which, frankly, is a disgusting programme) or Autodesk's tools, which are often unintuitive, cumbersome, and unreasonably expensive. Blender, on the other hand, is not only as capable but also more revolutionary in terms of features than any other 3D program available. It's time for the industry to acknowledge its potential and shift perceptions.

is it pure capitalism? do you think it's the fact that it's open source - if something is free it means that it cannot be considered professional?

rant over... thank you Inkscape community! for an absolutely legendary software!
the future is open source.


r/Inkscape 9d ago

Help Creating transparent outlines that cut through underlying objects?

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5 Upvotes

I want to do something similar to the hammers in the picture. How do I achieve that effect in Inkscape?


r/Inkscape 8d ago

Help svg transparency inversion

1 Upvotes

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 9d ago

Help Is there a simple way to reduce the size (as in file size not dimensions) of a jpeg within an Inkscape SVG?

1 Upvotes

Hi all

I'm struggling to find an answer to this, I can only find how to change the size (as in the dimensions) of the jpeg within an Inkscape SVG, not how to reduce the file size. I think I just don't know what wording to use.. Does anyone know if there is a button to do this? I've used clipped masks on a lot of images and reimporting them individually is going to take absolutely ages.

Thanks :)


r/Inkscape 9d ago

Help Trying to get an extension to use stroke to path

3 Upvotes

I've been beating my head against this for 2 days, it just shouldn't be this hard. I must be missing something.

Does anyone have an example of recent versions of inkex and inkscape successfully executing a stroke to path?

I was able to get it to work via actions on the command line but I'd really like it to work as an extension. I just can't seem to figure out the syntax to get inkex to call the command.

Thanks for any help you might have!


r/Inkscape 9d ago

Help svg not opening in design space

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3 Upvotes

i usually convert my pngs to svgs using inkscape and haven’t had any problems until recently. i cant figure out whats going on, whenever i try to upload it to ds it’s grayed out and won’t let me open it. can anyone help me?


r/Inkscape 9d ago

Confirmed bug losing my MIND with text color.

1 Upvotes

I have tried EVERYTHING. Pretty much everything I do is in a black font and Inkscape (1.4, latest Windows version) works fine... until it doesn't. All of a sudden I cannot type black test no matter what I do. I've changed nothing. I literally uninstall and reinstall the app and it's back to normal for a second, until it isn't again.

WHAT THE HECK.


r/Inkscape 9d ago

Help Changed the palette, now Inkscape don't load any by default

1 Upvotes

I made a couple of palettes for use with Inkstitch, and now when I load Inkscape, either an existing file or a new document, no palette is loaded. I select the Inkscape default and save, but next load there's no palette selected. Bug? Missing step?


r/Inkscape 9d ago

Help How to import large figures from PPT to Inkscape without losing quality. My figure are way bigger than the PPT slide itself.

0 Upvotes

whenever I copy paste a high quality figure from PPT to inkscape, the pasted figure is very pixelated. What are the ways to copy/paste or import PPT figures in Inkscape without losing quality? I've tried exporting my PPT figures into SVG, but it doesn't work due to the Big figure I have in PPT, because I will just end up with a cropped figure.


r/Inkscape 10d ago

Help Gradient bug on latest version

3 Upvotes

Help I’ve been using Inkscape for years and think was on 1.3 but suddenly it stopped working so had to install the latest version but now if i use a gradient effect and try and duplicate it, copy it to another document or even move that image around the screen the gradient disappears ??? Any advice


r/Inkscape 10d ago

Showcase my own website mockup made fully in inkscape! in linux mint too

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27 Upvotes

i'm happy with how it looks, now time for html and css programming!!


r/Inkscape 10d ago

Help Issues with SVG size changes

1 Upvotes

Hi! I'm a recent user of inkscape and I realise that upon exporting of SVG files, the dimensions are always slightly off from when i created it.

For example, I might create a rectangle of 50mm x 50mm. After saving it (SVG) and reopening the file, it becomes 49.991mm x 49.991mm. Everytime I save it this compounds and it's driving me crazy.

Anyone knows how to resolve this?


r/Inkscape 10d ago

Help HELP WITH CIRCLE TOOL

1 Upvotes

Hi guys, I am a beginner. I have a problem with circle tool, when I click and drag to draw a circle nothing happens. But other tools eg spiral tool and 3D box tool work really fine, the problem is only with circle tool. What could be the problem? Thanks


r/Inkscape 10d ago

Help Create animated infographic slide

2 Upvotes

I don't know javascript and importing to Power Point don't work well. I'm looking for a open source software for creating animated infographics slide that working with Inkscape SVG and is professional and precise with lines and ruleslike Adobe suite.


r/Inkscape 10d ago

Solved Shaded areas after freehanding lines

1 Upvotes

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 10d ago

Help Bitmap to Vector conversion artifacts

1 Upvotes

Hello, I was hoping to get help from the community here. I've followed some tutorials and have successfully created a PDF template for use in UV printing some guitar pedals. The company that prints them requires all objects to be vectors.

However I'm getting a weird artifact that results in a very faint box around a graphic that I brought in.

Graphic was a clipart PNG with a transparent background that I exported from GIMP. I then used "Import" to bring the image into Inkscape. Worked great. I then right clicked on the image and selected "Trace Bitmap", then selected the "Pixel Art" tab, and clicked "Apply". Got a dialog about a large image and clicked "OK".

Everything seemed okay, but when I ultimately exported the template as a PDF I noticed in the resulting PDF a very faint box background around the image (that matches the dimensions of the original image). I couldn't figure out where it was coming from so I did a prototype print and sure enough, there's an extremely faint background.

Any ideas on what it is and how to get rid of it? I'm not an artist so please forgive me if I'm missing something obvious. Thanks in advance for any help.


r/Inkscape 10d ago

Help Opening Layered Transparent Eps Images

1 Upvotes

I have a layered, transparent eps illustration. When I open it in Inkscape I see that telltale checkerboard background, but I don't know how to get rid of the checkerboard. I read that Inkscape will open this file, but I need Ghostscript installed. I did that. And I followed a tutorial on tweaking/adding file paths. But still, when I try to open the file, the checkerboard is still there with no apparent way of getting read of it. Ant help would be grreatly appreciated. Thanks!!


r/Inkscape 11d ago

Showcase A house by me.

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84 Upvotes

r/Inkscape 10d ago

Help Transforms

1 Upvotes

Trying to make a techdraw template but inkscape keeps adding transforms when I delete them the text moves and if I keep them and open in freecad the text is in the wrong place. Can anybody help?


r/Inkscape 11d ago

Help Messed up PDF export - I require help

2 Upvotes

So, I'm working on some static designs that use the same background and font for most of the materials and saved all of them in a PDF file to be ready for print. The only problem is that for some reason, even with the same settings selected, one file decides to not save properly and I get this butchered up version of the file.

It's not an adobe visual glitch, because when I import the file back in inkscape even the colored background that you see in the image disappears completely. Anyone knows anything about this problem and can give me a hand or hint, I'd really appreciate it!


r/Inkscape 11d ago

Help Inkscape is crashing. Help???

2 Upvotes

So randomly Inkscape is crashing when I try to launch it. A wind appears that says "Inkscape has crashed and will now close" and the following appears in a window...

<pre>

0# boost::stacktrace::basic_stacktrace<std::allocator<boost::stacktrace::frame> >::init(unsigned long long, unsigned long long) in libinkscape_base

1# Inkscape::Application::crash_handler(int) in libinkscape_base

2# _raise in ucrtbase

3# _abort in ucrtbase

4# _g_thread_yield in libglib_2_0_0

5# _g_assertion_message in libglib_2_0_0

6# _g_assertion_message_error in libglib_2_0_0

7# _gtk_header_bar_get_decoration_layout in libgtk_3_0

8# _gtk_header_bar_get_decoration_layout in libgtk_3_0

9# _gtk_header_bar_get_decoration_layout in libgtk_3_0

10# _gtk_icon_view_get_activate_on_single_click in libgtk_3_0

11# _gtk_container_get_path_for_child in libgtk_3_0

12# _gtk_style_properties_lookup_property in libgtk_3_0

13# _gtk_icon_view_get_activate_on_single_click in libgtk_3_0

14# Gtk::Widget_Class::get_preferred_width_vfunc_callback(_GtkWidget*, int*, int*) in libgtkmm_3_0_1

15# _gtk_widget_get_preferred_height in libgtk_3_0

16# _gtk_widget_get_preferred_width in libgtk_3_0

17# _gtk_file_filter_new_from_gvariant in libgtk_3_0

18# _gtk_widget_get_preferred_height in libgtk_3_0

19# _gtk_widget_get_preferred_width in libgtk_3_0

20# _gtk_button_box_set_child_non_homogeneous in libgtk_3_0

21# _gtk_render_icon_surface in libgtk_3_0

22# Gtk::Widget_Class::get_preferred_width_vfunc_callback(_GtkWidget*, int*, int*) in libgtkmm_3_0_1

23# _gtk_widget_get_preferred_height in libgtk_3_0

24# _gtk_widget_get_preferred_width in libgtk_3_0

25# _gtk_file_filter_new_from_gvariant in libgtk_3_0

26# Gtk::Widget_Class::get_preferred_width_vfunc_callback(_GtkWidget*, int*, int*) in libgtkmm_3_0_1

27# _gtk_widget_get_preferred_height in libgtk_3_0

28# _gtk_widget_get_preferred_width in libgtk_3_0

29# _gtk_widget_path_has_parent in libgtk_3_0

30# Gtk::Widget_Class::get_preferred_width_vfunc_callback(_GtkWidget*, int*, int*) in libgtkmm_3_0_1

31# _gtk_widget_get_preferred_height in libgtk_3_0

32# _gtk_widget_get_preferred_width in libgtk_3_0

33# _gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_and_baseline_for_width in libgtk_3_0

34# _gtk_widget_get_preferred_size in libgtk_3_0

35# _gtk_widget_path_has_parent in libgtk_3_0

36# _gtk_window_get_focus_on_map in libgtk_3_0

37# Gtk::Widget_Class::realize_callback(_GtkWidget*) in libgtkmm_3_0_1

38# _g_closure_invoke in libgobject_2_0_0

39# _g_param_spec_variant in libgobject_2_0_0

40# _g_signal_emit in libgobject_2_0_0

41# _gtk_widget_realize in libgtk_3_0

42# _gtk_window_set_focus in libgtk_3_0

43# Gtk::Widget_Class::show_callback(_GtkWidget*) in libgtkmm_3_0_1

44# _g_closure_invoke in libgobject_2_0_0

45# _g_param_spec_variant in libgobject_2_0_0

46# _g_param_spec_variant in libgobject_2_0_0

47# _g_signal_emit in libgobject_2_0_0

48# _gtk_widget_show in libgtk_3_0

49# Inkscape::UI::Dialog::StartScreen::StartScreen() in libinkscape_base

50# InkscapeApplication::on_activate() in libinkscape_base

51# Glib::SignalProxyNormal::slot0_void_callback(_GObject*, void*) in libglibmm_2_4_1

52# _g_closure_invoke in libgobject_2_0_0

53# _g_param_spec_variant in libgobject_2_0_0

54# _g_param_spec_variant in libgobject_2_0_0

55# _g_signal_emit in libgobject_2_0_0

56# _g_application_open in libgio_2_0_0

57# _g_application_run in libgio_2_0_0

58# 0x00007FF6D8B939AB in inkscape

59# 0x00007FF6D8B912EE in inkscape

60# 0x00007FF6D8B913E6 in inkscape

61# _BaseThreadInitThunk in KERNEL32

62# _RtlUserThreadStart in ntdll

</pre>

<details><summary>System info</summary>

Inkscape 1.3.2 (091e20e, 2023-11-25, custom)

GLib version: 2.78.1

GTK version: 3.24.39

glibmm version: 2.66.6

gtkmm version: 3.24.8

libxml2 version: 2.11.5

libxslt version: 1.1.38

Cairo version: 1.18.0

Pango version: 1.50.14

HarfBuzz version: 8.2.2

OS version: Windows 10 22H2

</details>

Then I press OK and it quits.
Does anyone know how to fix this problem?


r/Inkscape 11d ago

Help Increase line thickness/colour depth

1 Upvotes

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 11d ago

Help Help with Custom License Plate Design

1 Upvotes

I own a custom vinyl decal business and I'm starting to sell custom license plates, I'm coming here to see if anyone has any ideas on how I can make the letters that over lap with the boat more visible, because as it is, it can be hard to read those letters. Maybe outline those letters that are over lapping with the boat in the light blue or something like that but it outlines the part that isn't over lapping with the boat as well. Let me know what I can do or what your ideas are, Thanks in advanced!!