may be somebody could help me with this issue. drop down menu always show as cluttered overlap shit. what should i do or where to check

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Recently upgraded to 1.3.2 on a Microsoft Surface Pro 8 (Windows 11 Enterprise, 32Gb RAM, Intel i7 11th gen 4-core processor) and it takes FOREVER to open. Uninstalled and re-installed today and ran some tests.

After fresh install it took 3:06 to load the "welcome/initial setup" screen. From there, it took an additional 5:37 to open a new document.

Second test took 6:00 even to open a new document.

Once loaded, everything seems to work fine and is fairly snappy.

I also run this version on a Windows 10 Pro machine (Dell R440 Server, unknown processor, 15GB RAM). It is much faster on this machine, but still much slower than past versions.

Any tips for speeding up the startup time? I really don't want to have to VPN into my server each time I need to edit a document.

Hi, I'm a beginner of InkScape. Today I was going to import a photo to the InkScape. When I was importing it, the application freeze and not responding. I am using MacBook Pro 2018 to do my task. I tried to restart my MacBook, reopen the application, reinstall the application. The problem still there. The problem is founded today. Can anyone tell me how to fix it? Thanks a lot!!!

I made a clip group and duplicated it. The objects inside can be edited independently, but when I try to edit the path for the clip group container on the duplicated item, it just acts like another object contained within the clip group. It took me a while to realize that the clip group object is acting as a clone of the original and I don't want this. I know I can just duplicate the items individually and create a new group to avoid this problem, but I'm curious why does Inkscape do this when I didn't clone the object?

How do you combine paths to make one object to fill? I have tried combine, union, and group. how do make this on object as solid as a square or circle?

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Does anyone know why I cant apply a gradient to this group? I can apply a gradient perfectly to a regular rectangle, but I have this group of rectangles and I can't apply a gradient to it.

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When I paste an object, it goes to wherever my mouse is. Is there a way to change that, so that it goes to the original location?

First Inkscape wouldn't let me save my work, then when I restarted my computer and opened my file it said, "could not open requested file", whats going on?

Is there an equivalent to "save with links"? As Images doesnt seem to get embedded when I save them as an svg or pdf. All the vector stuff are left but none of the images are preserved. Need help.

Right now the transform window will allow me to rotate something by an angle with up to three decimal points. I would really like to be as precise as five decimal points. Is there a way for me to do this? Thanks.

For some reason, Inkscape is making all new objects - whether its text or paths or whatever - semi-transparent by default. The amount of transparency seems to be random, ranging from almost opaque to barely visible. The fill color isn't being changed - the object's opacity is being set directly. This behavior is annoying and I want to disable it. I don't know if it's normal or not because I certainly didn't try to enable it.

I'm not an....."artist"? (sorry if that sounds insulting to artists who use programs like this I dont mean it to be)

I mostly work in art programs that allow me to be more precise and technical link Inkscape illustrator, aftereffects(god i wish there was an open source one), and 3d modeling.

Lately my job being the weird joblot it is.
For weird story I work an office admin assitant style job, mostly onboarding people to work for our client.....but I am also known as the person that will take on any odd request we dont have a person for. Because of that I have started needing to use programs like this more.

If that makes any sense. So I probably dont need a top of the line monster tablet, I wouldnt have the room for it anyways, But I feel I would be more comfortable using a tablet.

Any other recommendations besides wacom or is wacom where it is at?

Hi all, I wanted to print some labels using the Inkscape Template from that thread. I deleted the images from the template and added my own, but when I printed it on sticker paper, it cropped out a bunch of things from the label and didn't print a few of them. I'm a total beginner at Inkscape, so it's probably something simple. Can someone help? This is what I designed, and this is how it came out.

I can't find any "Friendly" tutorials on writing Inkscape extensions. Has anyone here written any of their own? Where did you find the best guidance and instruction?

When I write a title and select the photo the post button turns grey. What's the issue?

Hi there. With my art, it is very often the case that I want to add a node to a path that already exists in a very specific place. I'll have two elliptical paths and want to make a line that is tangent to both of them, then add nodes to those ellipses where the tangents are. Finding the tangent points is easy enough using the measure tool to find the angle I'm looking for and making a guide which is that angle. I have snapping turned on, so when I hover my mouse near where the tangent is, the X appears to tell me that the lines are tangent there in case I want to add a node there, but then... I can't. Not precisely, anyway. If I click while the X is visible, it still places the node wherever I've clicked, NOT on the tangent point. I understand that you have to be pretty close to get the X to appear at all, but I'm not aiming for "pretty close." Maybe there is some keyboard shortcut I'm unaware of?

If I'm using the pen tool and creating a NEW path, rather than editing one I have, then yes, the X appears saying the two lines are tangent, and I can make my new node exactly on those coordinates. So I am open to using this as a workaround (in fact, in some ways this is even better), except so far there's no guarantee it will work when I try to put the new nodes on the old path by uniting them. I will make my ellipses and lines, and then when I click Path>Union, they DON'T LINE UP ANYMORE.

What do I do about this? Thank you so, so much.