Hi,

I have a shape I have created using bezier lines that I want to fill, however, when I fill there is a small white gap between the fill colour and my lines. I have deselected and selected every option on the FIll and Stroke panel, and also searched for this everywhere, I'm guessing this is a pretty simple question, but I can't sort it!

I have managed to make a border to the fill which if made large enough covers the white, but that also impinges on my surrounding lines and fill.

Cheers,

Phil

What I think you've done is draw a shape using Bezier lines, then used the bucket tool to fill the area surrounded by those lines, yes? That's a normal approach when using a raster graphic tool (Gimp, Photoshop, or similar).

With Inkscape, you'd be better drawing your shape as a single object - a single bezier line with several nodes, the last line joining to the start point - then setting the drawn object's fill colour.

Or if your really desperate to keep what you've done, follow these steps to get a filled area of exactly the right shape:
Select all the lines with
Duplicate them (Ctrl+D)
Convert them to paths (Ctrl+Alt+C)
Create a union from the paths (Ctrl+Shift+ + )
Break Apart the new shape (Ctrl+Shift+k)
One of the two shapes created will be the exact fill. Delete the other.
The problem isn't that this is difficult, but that you've got more work if you change you drawing.

Edit: Looks like Slow Dog and I were typing a reply at the same time. Not so slow after all.

You must be using the paint bucket tool.

It's not very exact; it takes an almost raster-like approach to filling a space.

However, if the shape you are trying to fill is closed, you can assign it a fill color in the fill and stroke dialog (or simply click a color in the pallet at the bottom). Don't touch the paint bucket. There's also a shortcut in the lower left corner that displays the fill and stroke of an object and allows you to change it.

I hope that helps.

SureWhyNot wrote:Edit: Looks like Slow Dog and I were typing a reply at the same time. Not so slow after all.

I was typing for ages; stupid paws. I must have started a -long- time before you.

I know this is late now, but I found this thread searching the same question. I had already drawn my image which wasn't wholly made up of closed shapes, but was a free-hand sketch, so using the simple fill/stroke utility wouldn't work for me. I had used the bucket tool to fill in my image, but the white gaps were annoying, considering it was going to be submitted for printing on a tshirt.

In the end, I was able to adjust the nodes of the "filled in" space that had the tiny white line/gap around it so that it covered the white line and appeared to be accurately filled in. So, for instance, if there was a red blob shape with a black outline and a white gap in between, I simply "stretched" the red blog to nestle into the space using the nodes. Since each color was on a separate layer, this seemed to work well and I hope will be effective enough.

I'm a noob at all of this, though, so it could be a piss-poor solution! Perhaps it is the bucket tool which needs tweaking?

Wow, I'm envious of all you graphic artists out there.

I am having the same problem.

The solution appears to be very simple.

Simply draw the outlines in one layer and use the paint bucket tool in another layer. Make sure you set stroke as black or whatever colour you wish or whatever thickness you wish and remove the original non-filled outlines layer.

I don't think you are using the tool correctly. you should just use the fill and stroke dialog to color an object in most cases.