HELP; Noob here, how do I get trace bitmap to give me only and outer path and an inner path not two outer paths and two inner paths with a small space inbetween.

I feel like at this currently time im only walking in a loop, i improved a lot compared to when i start using Inkscape and also making simple illustrations in general, but i think now im currently in a very big bottleneck, i cant really improve so much than before on basically anything else, my brain just dont click anymore, im able to create some good things with Inkscape but its like ultra mega hard when i try to create these things without just copying another guy/tutorial/etc or using a reference.
I basically just asking for tips on how i can start to build up my creativity, and how can i leave my confort zone to really start using Inkscape at its full potential (what i mean is that i want to start learning things but just trying but i dont know how to start). So, do you guys that already know how to draw (and use Inkscape) have any tips for me?

Hello, so I been using inkscape since atleast 2016, maybe even further back (as in 2014-2015 I think I became obsessed with free software for a bit cos I was a kid with zero money).

And back then a raster program called Aseprite (I'm going somewhere with this) used to also be free (it's still around today in monetary form though), and Aseprite has a function where you can horizontally or vertically tile your drawing, but all of the tiles are entangled in real time, so that drawing or erasing on one (either the original or on a tile clone), draws and erases on all of the others identically.

I desperately need this, for my usecase.

My usecase is that:

I want to create seamless 2:1 equirectangular projections for spherical panoramic turnarounds.

So I was wondering if such an extension already is out there. As I have seen tutorials for creating a tiled patterns, but it's always after you've finished touching the art, if you draw over it, the graphiti over it doesn't tile after it has been placed, because it is not live.

So what I'm probably looking for is a way to tile the entire page, in real time, as it is being drawn on.

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I was going to settle for any tile extension, but if this is a new one that needs to be created from scratch; then I would also like to add an additional request:

Horizontally flipped vertical tiling.

What this means is that as you draw a line on the right side of the original image, and you drag the line up, into the tile above it, that tile is mirrored, so that, whilst your line is still on the right side of the screen; because the image itself is flipped, and it is on the right side of the flipped image, it then appears on the left side (as a mirror of itself) on the original image.

This would really make life simpler for a lot of things not just my particular use case, trust me.

Thank you Inkscape Community for hearing me out

(I've tried to write my own extensions but I'm unskilled and bit off more than I should have)

Hey all, I'm trying to remove the background of a photo of a fossil. First I made a tracing using multiple line segments, grouped them, and then set a clip. But I keep getting this rectangular artifact. As expected, the corners of this rectangle align with the breaks between the individual line segments composing the tracing. But since I set them as a group, I'm not sure why this issue persists. I'm trying to make figures for a research paper, so any help is greatly appreciated! Let me know if I need to clarify any part of my process.

https://preview.redd.it/jxhpnm43oege1.png?width=1021&format=png&auto=webp&s=434c628f15dff4d4cce3bbce5251c769bc374c9b

https://preview.redd.it/atjfv1j4oege1.png?width=718&format=png&auto=webp&s=b3e84f77c12adb1719f43a17c0a987c9347e1d52

https://preview.redd.it/glwwfsdmjdge1.png?width=513&format=png&auto=webp&s=a1f34617409423bb2da3e924d25bc1844e2a2297

I've officially figured out exactly which filters in which order and which changes I made to achieve this result, so I will make a video on it later if you guys want it.

Pretty realistic

Very color customizable

VERY color customizable

(PS: All the images above are just a simple square very close up on the corner)

And the good news is, it can also be applied to letters like any other object and you can just write with it like normal.

Fire of fire

Which also means you can manipulate the text like normal

Hello, I have just started using Inkscape in school and while we were doing a project to get an A the program crashed ans I have forgotten to save the file and now all my work is gone is there a way I can recover the file by any chances? Please help me with this one cause I need to get a good grade. It really took me a lot of time and back pain to do it and I was almost finished with it.

https://preview.redd.it/7k7nf4jk6dge1.png?width=888&format=png&auto=webp&s=a67770490c485e0a8da8f0c6b2fb3bec04323262

im inkscape noob so please tell me steps how to do that

Hi, so basically I want to make my star 500x500 because I want its pivot point in unity to be the dead center of the star. However, when I set width to 500 and height to 500, it will never be just 500x500 like I want. Instead its 500.070x500.361. What is going on?

https://preview.redd.it/5ot9oqz6a9ge1.png?width=1010&format=png&auto=webp&s=a59cc0395b979b89db213de66b23422eea2c4594

So I am trying to fill a simple square with a honeycomb pattern. If I change the values in Scale X and Y, the density of the filling changes and the line thickness changes as well. In the two screenshots here, the first one is using a scale of 0.05, which yield pattern lines of 100µm in thickness. In the second, the honeycombs are larger, obtained by using a scale of 0.1, but the line thickness of the pattern is now 200µm.

What I want to maintain the line thickness, to 100µm for example, but change the size of the honeycomb patters at will. Is it something that can be done with the fill pattern tool?

Thanks in advance for any help!

https://preview.redd.it/l1of5vbx49ge1.png?width=2556&format=png&auto=webp&s=78ec344a30e521d1dbfa257e0f9d20df0954ef98

https://preview.redd.it/ku7ygvbx49ge1.png?width=2558&format=png&auto=webp&s=d1f0de484d3d32f78905ecbcbd3d0a679154668c

https://preview.redd.it/8xi3folrh7ge1.png?width=1072&format=png&auto=webp&s=76e78803f29986247f780c183a84e87826ec4252

Hi,

can someone explain to me why the text is not inside the text area?

And why, if I try to go to a new line to insert a new row of text, it is placed in the same position as the other one?

Thank you!

Every time I use the fill tool, there's an unfilled line that can only be seen if zoomed out, but if I export it as a PNG, it's there but very vague.

Example

How do you delete font on Inkscape because I have 20 fonts that are save and they are all the same in the font library

I am stuck. How do I finish this process? If I hit apply, my trace disappears. I don’t understand how to delete the original. If I click export, it again wants to use the original (color) picture. Thanks in advance.

I am stuck. How do I finish this process? If I hit apply, my trace disappears. I don’t understand how to delete the original. If I click export, it again wants to use the original (color) picture. Thanks in advance.

I have a project that uses a pen plotter that takes an SVG as in input but of course the text in the SVG needs to be converted to a path. We want this process to be automated so I've been looking into the command line actions but I'm having trouble doing almost anything with the command line actions. I've tried using just the command prompt and the inkscape shell but just can't get anything to change or even create a new file that I can access. If there's a good tutorial anywhere that someone could point me to or any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

I created a jigsaw puzzle with all the pieces colored with a black border. I put text on top and I'd like it so that any pieces that intersect with the text are white (keeping the black border), almost like a mask. When I try Path > Intersect, it just makes a bunch of random spots inside the text.

What am i missing? I feel like it's something obvious. 😵‍💫

I'll start:

Inkstitch - for creating embroidery designs ^(1)

inx-pathops - boolean operations across many objects at once ^(2)

1 Inkstitch

2 inx-pathops

I’ve been using an older version for a while and I just installed 1.4. I’m having a few issues I need help with. How do I get the panel tabs to always stay how I originally had them? Whenever I open a new document they are gone and I have to re-add them.

Same goes for the selector tool. I want it to always stay on “select all touched objects” but it defaults back to “select all objects”. Thanks!