I created a drawing in Inkscape 0.92.2 (in Windows 10 Pro 64 bit) that was built using hundreds of 1x1 rectangles which are snapped to each other. I've tried grouping and combining, but no matter what I do, the boundary lines between the rectangles are remain visible.





The rectangles in question have 0 stroke size and no stroke color. It seems to me that if I snap several equal size rectangles to each other, they should appear (at least in output) as a single object with no internal boundaries. How can I achieve this result? I've tried grouping the rectangles (ctrl+g) and combining (ctrl+k).

My ultimate goal is to provide a clean .SVG file to a t-shirt company to silkscreen shirts for a school club. One of the students created a design in Paint which all the kids voted to use. However, the t-shirt company can't work with the original low-res raster art. It became my task to turn it into vector art. Since what the kids want is a very early '80s, pixelated, 8-bit sort of look, I decided to build their design (only partially shown in the image and SVG which are linked above) using hundreds of rectangles. I have faithfully recreated the original artist's design, look and feel, except for all the internal borders which I don't know how to get rid of.

Hi.

Check this topic for further details:
gap issue.

If you add the white squares together (Ctrl++) it should look solid.

Next time, you'll be faster using the Bézier tool and snapping to the grid. Then you can draw the figure in one (or two, for the nine) line.

Ultimately, overlapping the objects slightly is the solution with the least consequences. But this faq gives a few other options: https://inkscape.org/en/learn/faq/#ther ... n-patterns

The shirt printer may or may not be able to use the rectangles. You might have to use Path menu > Object to Path, to make them all into paths.

brynn wrote:The shirt printer may or may not be able to use the rectangles. You might have to use Path menu > Object to Path, to make them all into paths.

Or use Path -> Union to combine them into one path.

shawnhcorey wrote:

brynn wrote:The shirt printer may or may not be able to use the rectangles. You might have to use Path menu > Object to Path, to make them all into paths.

Or use Path -> Union to combine them into one path.

^-To avoid confusion combining=/=union.
Latter's shortkey is Ctrl++ as already written above in the very first reply, Ctrl+K does not have a visual effect this case.