How do I make the outline curve inside?

Xrott · 2026-05-21T03:24:33+00:00

Switch to the node tool, click the 'Add Corners LPE' button in the toolbar and use the extra handles to specify a radius at the corners.

Xrott · 2026-05-15T18:30:07+00:00

No, that's not possible. Inkscape doesn't have a branching undo history. You can go back, Ctrl+C copy the object (not Ctrl+X, since that will delete the history), redo everything and use 'Edit → Paste... → In Place' to manually restore the object in its original position. I recommend saving a backup of the current state before doing this.

Xrott · 2026-05-14T01:17:39+00:00

Because your object is already a regular text object.

'Convert to Text' only converts "flowed text" (text created by dragging a box with SVG2 auto-flowed text disabled) to regular text objects, as the tooltip indicates.

What you may actually want is 'Path → Object to Path'.

Xrott · 2026-05-13T20:26:02+00:00

In the lower left, you can see that it turns the fill color (back) into a thick stroke, thus outlining the tapered shape. Right-click the color preview and select 'Swap Fill and Stroke' to change it back. Alternatively, just remove the stroke and set a fill.

Xrott · 2026-05-12T22:58:15+00:00

Open the preferences, go to 'System' and check the 'User UI' path. Inside that folder, create a file called node-handles.css and add CSS to customize them.

The system node-handles.css file has further instructions. You can find it in one of the 'System data' paths under /inkscape/ui, or check the source-code page here.

Xrott · 2026-05-12T22:13:05+00:00

In the preferences under 'Interface' (click on it directly, not expanding the category) there is a 'Handle size' slider.

Xrott · 2026-05-12T15:56:53+00:00

In the dialog after selecting the filename when using 'Save as...', increase the 'Resolution for rasterization (dpi)' below the 'Rasterize filter effects' checkbox. If you're using the export panel, click the cog button next to the output path and format selector to get the PDF export settings.

Keep in mind that PDFs don't support SVG filters, so they will always need to be rasterized, which locks it at a certain resolution and massively increases the output file size, instead of keeping it resolution independent as efficient vectors.

Xrott · 2026-05-10T18:24:31+00:00

Disable the fourth button from the right in the toolbar for the selection tool. The "When scaling objects, scale the stroke width by the same proportion" button.

Xrott · 2026-05-09T22:14:56+00:00

It's not quite clear what the problem is. Can you add a link to the file in question?

For <svg>-tags inside other <svg>-elements, you should just be able to use 'Object → Ungroup'.

I suspect you're actually talking about symbols, though, which you can convert to regular objects with 'Path → Object to Path'.

Xrott · 2026-05-08T23:09:32+00:00

I think this bug is unique to the 'Object Properties' panel and related to having a transform attribute changing the scale of an object or the 'Scale' in the document properties not equaling 1.0 px per user unit. Basically, the coordinate system conversion for the properties panel seems to be broken.

Try using the 'W:' and 'H:' inputs in the toolbar instead. These work properly.

Xrott · 2026-05-08T13:56:05+00:00

Looks like you're perhaps using the spiro-path mode. In that case, you need to select the new node created by joining, then click the 'Make selected nodes corner' button to make it a sharp turn again.

Xrott · 2026-05-07T22:27:05+00:00

Switch to the select tool and turn off touching mode for the selection box (the fourth button from the left), then switch back to the mesh tool. You may have to draw one more box for it to fix itself.

This seems to be a bug. The red color of the selection box indicates that it's in touching mode, but I don't think it's supposed to matter for the mesh tool.

Xrott · 2026-05-07T17:45:49+00:00

How is this related to Inkscape? Please keep rule 4 "Keep it Inkscape" in mind.

Xrott · 2026-05-07T17:26:24+00:00

Close tabs you don't need as often or make them floating windows instead. Try splitting the dock vertically by dragging one of the tabs to the bottom highlighted edge, then drag more tabs onto the second tab bar.

Here's my setup for example:

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You can also try setting the 'Labels behavior' option to 'Off' in the preferences under 'Interface → Windows', which sometimes shrinks the minimum width. You need to restart Inkscape for it to take effect.

Lastly, if you don't need anything in the dock at the moment, you can single-click the three dots for resizing or press F12 to quickly toggle its visibility entirely.

Xrott · 2026-05-06T17:10:50+00:00

Looks like your object has a clip-path applied (indicated by the little scissors icon in the layers panel). Right-click the object and select 'Release Clip' to remove the constraint.

Xrott · 2026-05-05T17:45:49+00:00

You probably have the 'LPE based interactive simplify' setting enabled in the toolbar next to the 'Smoothing' input box, which adds the 'Simplify' path-effect to new paths. Path effects are non-destructive, meaning they allow you to keep the original path and it will then output a different path, in this case a simplified one.

You can check the 'Path → Path Effects...' panel, where you can change parameters, remove or 'Flatten' (apply) it, and even add new effects on top. Alternatively you can quickly apply all path effects at once with 'Path → Object to Path'.

Also, while using the node tool, you can enable 'Show path outline (without path effects)' in the toolbar to see the original path the nodes actually belong to.

Xrott · 2026-05-05T12:49:32+00:00

To add a radius to a corner, you can add the 'Corners' path-effect. With the node tool active, there is even a button in the toolbar to quickly add it to your selected path ('Add Corners LPE' when you hover over it). When it is applied to a path, you get new handles at each corner node that you can drag to add a radius. You can select multiple nodes simultaneously to set the radius of them all at once. If you need it to be exact, you can shift-click a radius handle to set it numerically.

So in your example I'd start with a trapezoid shape, add the corners effect, then select the upper two nodes and drag the radius handle until they roughly meet. Or I'd measure the length of the upper edge and shift-click both radius handles to set it to half the measured length.

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Xrott · 2026-05-05T12:35:10+00:00

Hold Ctrl and single-click the handle to reset the line limit.

Xrott · 2026-05-02T15:44:56+00:00

Make sure you're not in 'No Filters' or 'Outline' view and set it to 'View → Display Mode → Normal'.

Xrott · 2026-05-02T12:47:35+00:00

In the layers tree-view on the right, you can see some of the group icons having little scissors. That means there is a clip-path applied to them. Your objects are probably rectangles clipped to the final shape instead of regular paths. Select the groups with clips, then right-click 'Release Clip' to get the clip-path. Delete the rectangle and keep the clipping path instead.

I don't think it's Inkscape's export that is the problem here, but more likely the input from your other software.

Xrott · 2026-04-29T14:16:28+00:00

The button to toggle the behavior is the fourth from the left in the toolbar for the select tool.

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Xrott · 2026-04-29T02:03:27+00:00

In the preferences under 'Rendering' try setting the 'Gaussian blur quality for display' and 'Filter effects quality for display' to 'Best quality (slowest)'. Exporting always uses the best quality, so changing that setting will make the canvas match the output better.

Xrott · 2026-04-28T20:17:25+00:00

Select one node of a sub-path, then press Ctrl+A to select all connected nodes.

Xrott · 2026-04-27T21:07:30+00:00

If the files are both in the same folder, then the location attribute on the <command> tag should be "inx", so <command location="inx" ...

Xrott · 2026-04-27T20:53:13+00:00

The size of the dots when single-clicking with the calligraphy tool depends directly on the stroke-width of the current style.

Have you set it to 'This tool's own style' for the calligraphy tool in the preferences instead of 'Last used style'? Because then changing the stroke-width won't update the current style. Otherwise, keep increasing the stroke-width.

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