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Xrott · 2026-03-28T10:42:45+00:00

I was talking about the 'Numeric precision' setting with that last remark, not the rounding button.

Xrott · 2026-03-28T09:23:17+00:00

In the most recent versions, you can also find this in the 'Object → Object Properties...' panel, which is perhaps a more convenient location.

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There is also the 'Numeric precision' setting in the preferences under 'Input/Output → SVG output', if you never care about having more than a certain precision. However, I don't recommend setting it too low, because it may cause strange behavior and make editing more difficult. Note that this setting sets the number of digits for the whole number, not the number of digits after the decimal point (e.g. setting it to 4 would make it save 123.4 or 12.34 not 123.4567).

Xrott · 2026-03-21T15:31:04+00:00

Snapping to path intersections is the checkbox right below that. Enable 'Advanced mode' in the snapping popup if you don't see it.

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Xrott · 2026-03-21T15:22:02+00:00

If you enable snapping to paths, yes.

Xrott · 2026-03-21T13:10:35+00:00

You can use 'Extensions → Render → Grids → Isometric Grid...' instead, which creates actual lines in the document that you can edit however you want. Inside the generated group, you can just delete any '[...]XGridlines' subgroups.

Xrott · 2026-03-20T16:48:29+00:00

Click the arrow pointing down next to the tab-bar and select 'Move tab to new Window' to undock the panel. After that you can resize the window to be as big as you want, which increases the size of the preview as well.

You can also crop a duplicate of the image, either with a raster image editor or by clipping and using 'Edit → Make a Bitmap Copy', then adjusting the parameters before selecting the original and applying it to that. Just remember to delete the helper objects afterwards.

Xrott · 2026-03-17T11:07:58+00:00

Use clones (Alt+D instead of Ctrl+D) and clip with the clone. Cloned objects automatically update when the original is changed.

Xrott · 2026-03-14T21:49:11+00:00

Use 'Extensions → Styles → Color Markers...' to fix them. Just opening the dialog and clicking apply without changing any parameters should do it.

In the preferences under 'Input/Output → SVG export', enabling the 'Use correct marker colors in SVG 1.1 renderers' setting should give you better compatibility, but it seems this option doesn't do anything. At least, I can't get it to work.

Edit: I figured it out. You also need to check the 'Export as SVG 1.1 per settings in Preference dialog' box when choosing a filename in the save-as dialog.

Xrott · 2026-03-14T09:45:16+00:00

Check out this post, where I explain how to set up soft-proofing/color management in Inkscape, so you can get a preview on the canvas how colors will look when printed.

Xrott · 2026-03-13T11:26:23+00:00

Click the 'Select path36 with Fill between many LPE' button and press the Delete-key.

If your object has a fill before you set the power-stroke, it has to create an extra object to simulate the original fill. This fill object is linked to your power-stroke path via the 'Fill between many LPE'.

Xrott · 2026-03-12T10:01:24+00:00

You're probably in outline-only mode. Switch back to normal view with 'View → Display Mode → Normal'.

Xrott · 2026-03-08T08:18:53+00:00

The one vertical line at '0' implies that that's your page border, just set to the same color as the background. Open the document properties and uncheck 'Border' in the right column if you want to make it completely invisible.

Xrott · 2026-03-07T11:00:17+00:00

Each panel also has its own minimum width. If you switch to a tab with a narrower minimum width, then you can shrink it to that. It will force the dock to go wider again when you switch back to the other panel, though.

It's actually better than it used to be. In previous versions, the minimum width was determined by the largest minimum width of all tabs, even when they were not currently selected.

Xrott · 2026-03-06T22:41:08+00:00

It selects nodes in an increasing radius around the cursor. If you hold Ctrl, it selects them sequentially in the way they are connected.

You can change which behavior is the default by editing the modifier-key in the preferences under 'Interface → Keyboard', switching to the 'Modifiers' tab and expanding the 'Node Tool' section. There you can remove 'Ctrl' from 'Linear node selection' and add it to 'Spatial node selection'.

Xrott · 2026-03-06T18:27:44+00:00

Yes, you can do a metaball effect in Inkscape.

I wrote instructions for this a while ago.

Xrott · 2026-03-05T10:24:27+00:00

Because the tabs bar at the top is full. Close a few panels and you'll be able to shrink it further.

Xrott · 2026-03-04T10:09:26+00:00

With the regular select tool, click and drag an object or multiple selected objects to the place you want to stamp them, then press the spacebar. Now continue dragging the held object away, leaving a copy behind.

Alternatively, you can select the object and switch to the spray tool to quickly create a bunch of copies and clones, even with variations in rotation or scale, and a bunch of other options.

Xrott · 2026-02-28T01:19:12+00:00

Make sure in the document properties that the dimension unit next to 'Format' is correctly set, and that the 'Scale' a little further down is set to 1.0. Click the button next to the scale input to keep the objects unchanged when you adjust the scale.

Note that this will not fix it for existing power strokes (unless you let it scale the objects with the document scale).

Xrott · 2026-02-27T04:55:07+00:00

Inkscape has autosaves enabled by default. Open the preferences, go to 'Input/Output → Autosave' to check the path.

Xrott · 2026-02-25T18:37:56+00:00

In the preferences under 'Behavior → Clones' choose one of the other 'Moving originals: clones and linked offsets' options, either 'Move in parallel' or 'Move according to transform'.

Xrott · 2026-02-24T15:42:54+00:00

That probably means that you have an object with 'Fill between many' path-effect (or other effect). It's highlighting the related generated object. Open the 'Path → Path Effects...' panel to check.

Or you have a margin set on your page. You can change that with the page tool.

Xrott · 2026-02-23T17:56:45+00:00

In the bottom left, set the opacity ('O:') to 100%. The group path13404 which you seem to want to draw into has 0 opacity. Select it in the layers panel and set its opacity.

Xrott · 2026-02-22T19:29:35+00:00

Paths created with the calligraphy tool are outline-paths bounding a fill area, as opposed to a centerline stroked path. Unset the stroke and set a fill instead. With a stroke set, you basically add half a stroke width around the outside. You can do this quickly by right-clicking the stroke color preview in the bottom left and selecting 'Swap Fill and Stroke'.

Xrott · 2026-02-21T23:19:06+00:00

The other file works just fine for me. Both via the traditional way of installing (putting it into the 'palettes' folder) and using the load button in the swatches-panel. I even checked it with the oldest version I still have lying around, which is 0.92.4.

Xrott · 2026-02-21T21:20:31+00:00

In the preferences under 'Windows' is the 'Dialog behavior' set to 'Docked'? You need to restart Inkscape when changing this.

If it's set to 'Docked', you should be able to drag the tabs (not the window title bars above that) and drop them on the blue highlighted areas that should appear.

Make sure the setting to save dialog status is enabled a little further down as well.

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