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Title: Cannot delete one line from SVG
Post by: rickysticks on February 09, 2019, 03:45:32 PM

These six horizontal lines were imported into Inkscape. I would like to delete the lowest line. Any help would be much appreciated!

Title: Re: Cannot delete one line from SVG
Post by: Lazur on February 10, 2019, 07:42:15 AM

Hi.

Check your attached file. There is only a text object within written with Helsinki Special Std font. Cannot see any Drum Legend depicted as written in the document title.

Title: Re: Cannot delete one line from SVG
Post by: rickysticks on February 10, 2019, 12:17:12 PM

Hi Lazur, thank you so much!

I didn't realise the lines were a text object. Knowing this, I was able to 'convert object to path' and use the 'edit paths by nodes' tool to remove that unwanted sixth line.

I am so grateful! :)

Title: Re: Cannot delete one line from SVG
Post by: brynn on February 10, 2019, 01:30:04 PM

Welcome to the forum!

Wow, I never saw anything but one text object!  And it wasn't text actually, but a couple of black squares, touching at one corner.

But I'm glad it solved your problem!  That's the most important part  :)

Title: Re: Cannot delete one line from SVG
Post by: Lazur on February 11, 2019, 02:27:40 PM

Glad it worked.

Not having the mentioned font installed here -and probably there too- with windows it's probably a fallback font what is displayed (as a fallback font is rendered for the basic "sans-serif").

The character was , which is
U+F02E (http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatisit.html) : <private-use-F02E>,

seems to be an invalid character (https://www.charbase.com/f02e-unicode-invalid-character).

Although, some fonts (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/f02e/fontsupport.htm) are supporting it, including
Webdings:

(http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/font/webdings/uF02E.png)

Mystery solved.