I have been using Inkscape forever. Just downloaded the new version and it is sooooo slow. Unusably slow.

Computer is plenty powerful, so perhaps I have messed up the install? Anyone else experience this or have a possible solution? I'd much rather have my old version back.

Hey guys, I am trying to build something to show locations for a bunch of points for nails for some string art. I am going about this manually because I can't find any sites that will do a rectangle, in a custom size, and for a poor working mans acceptable price, hence manual stuff here.

Basically, I need to build a 20.5 inch by 30.5 inch rectangle with 350 points spaced out around the outside. Does not need to be all the same distances, but I know how many for sides and top/bottom to get close enough. Going to have this laser engraved on the backside of the frame. Any suggestions for getting all these cross lines made evenly spaced between the corners?

Or will I be better off doing this in something like Fusion and getting that exported to an SVG file?

guys i'm new to inkscape i was following a tutorial step by step but when i used the shape builder tool that happened

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Hi I need to make my laser repeat small sections of shape multiple times is there any easy way to do it expect cutting manually object into lines then coping it multiple times ? Idk if it’s clear English isn’t my first language

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comes after istalling

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I am working on a text layout and decided to try the Text Flow into Frame, with the hope that I could then duplicate the thing and create new texts in the same shape (these are title cards for a video). I managed to edit the shape that I like and it's giving me the typography I want. I managed to remove the stroke on the shape (because I don't want it in the end design) and now I cannot edit it.

If I click on the text with the text tool, I see the line, but it is not editable.

If I select the text with the node tool I get a single node that only seems to allow me to scale the shape.

Any suggestions?

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Hello!

I usually prepare my presentation slides starting from one svg file with different layers (background layer + text/layer).

Since it's very annoying to hide layers, show only background and one layer, export, hide previous layer, show next one, ... I wanted to make script for batch export.

I know I can export n layers in n different png files with this script:

inkscape draw.svg --export-id-only --export-id="layer1;layer2" --export-type="png"

But how can I export two different layers together?

Thank you in advance =)

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After using trace bitmap, is there a way to close the path of every single segment? I want to be able to treat each segment as seperate if possible. Filling with different colours, or moving them around.

I am designing a desk mat using Inkscape that has 1:1 size gears for matching an assortment of gears. I have messed around with the bundled gear renderer to no avail. I also downloaded a English translation of a french plugin (text is English and picture text is french). No help there either.

All of the information from the manufacture is in customary American measurements

• Outside Diam = 1.000"
• Pitch Diam = 0.900"
• Tooth Count = 18
• Diametral Pitch (DP) = 20DP
• Pressure angle = 14.5
• Center hole = 0.500" HEX and Round

How can I render a gear that uses my American measurements. I've done conversions using formulas and forum posts but can't get things quote close enough. Any thoughts? Is there an American gear plugin?

I’m working on an svg for laser cutting a grid of circles. However I want to adjust the gap between the circles so that the piece of wood actually has holes in it. I did this by creating a circle with no stroke to the diameter I need. Then adding a stroke that’s the distance between the next circle. But when I create the tiled clones, the stroke overlaps some. As seen in pic.

I found the remove overlap button in the align menu. But I would like to know how to get it to come out how I want from the tiled clones to save time and improve work flow!

Thank you for any help:)

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Hi all,

I installed Inkscape in an attempt to change some some svg visuals I downloaded from the internet. More specifically, I am trying to reduce the width of the lines that make up shapes in the svg.

I have searched this subreddit where folks were trying to solve this same issue, but I couldn't replicate their solution.

Below a link to a sample SVG: https://www.svgrepo.com/svg/486147/customer-report-line

Does anybody have an idea of how to do that?

Thanks in advance.

I do not understand why it is doing this. I have set Python.exe to a different version in path, but it refuses to use anything other than what is in Inkscape even though I've deleted it. Why is Python running from Inkscape in the first place??

If any of my files get up to 10 mb or more inkscape gives a message saying, "Unspecified fatal error encountered, aborting" and doesn't open the file

I am very new to Inkscape and I am Using it in conjunction with an embroidery software (hatch 3), in order to create the smoothest edges possible so I have a clean image to work with. I am currently trying to figure out how to take the black edges and combine them, essentially creating an outline for this logo. Can I get some guidance on how to go about this? Any and all hep is greatly appreciated.

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Hello! new here, i'm having trouble with some pixelated design, I'm using a reference image and there's just too many colors, I've already done part by just manual color reduction but there's a lot left and it is quite exhausting in te head. The question here: Is there a way to reduce the ammount of color in an image? It is already pixel art but i'm trying to get it to be 5-6 colors. I've achieved SOMETHING by vectorizing with multicolor scans and like 8 passes. Is there another way like in Photoshop or some quite old program that i've seen in some videos?

EXAMPLE TO EXPLAIN MYSELF: There's a pixelated red flag in the reference, i wan't to keep some detail, but not all of it, so, is there a way to reduce from 16 shades of red to like 7-8?

Can anyone suggest the best black and white color codes/hex/rgb or pallette for printing on clothing? I'm realizing the standard black and white aren't cutting it.

TIA! Happy Thanksgiving!

I've a ridgelineplot of a place (that I made in R), the SVG in Normal mode (view > display > normal) is what I want to plot (pen plotter), however when I do I noticed some parallel lines in my plot between ridgelines and I was confused enough to check Outline mode and see them. I'm new to inkscape and svg and would like to know more about how this happens and what can I do to fix it.

cant draw something similar in inkscape, all i get are the arrows that are not allined, or too big, or too small, ... is it the right software? Are there alternatives?

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