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Help Using Inkscape => Inkscape Beginners' Questions => Topic started by: PlaneAnimal on October 27, 2018, 07:44:04 PM
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Hello everyone,
I have a question regarding how objects in Inkscape are saved to file / exported. If I draw a perfect circle (ctrl key + drag, no fill)
when I select the object , Inkscape reports at the window bottom Circle in layer... The file is saved as SVG, When read back the
object still identifies as circle. Yet if I open the Objects sidebar, it is reported as a path ! Moreover, it is stored as a series of points (path).
Is there any way to export or save the object(s) as a circle, say center point and radius ? I have tried multiple extensions and they all export
multipoint paths. This leads me to believe that Inkscape must be storing circles / elipse as paths and not geometric elements.
Thanks for your help and the wonderful software.
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Welcome to the forum!
Interesting - I would guess that's a bug which identifies the Circle shape as a path, in Objects dialog. I don't know if it's been reported or not. (https://launchpad.net/inkscape)
However, saving the file as SVG, I still see the circle shape, and don't see any nodes.
Could you be mistaking the circle handles ( 2 squares and a circles) as nodes? Or could you have mistakenly converted the circle to a path?
Edit
Besides the status bar, you could further confirm the identity of an object in the XML Editor.
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Hi brynn,
Thanks for the welcome.
Interesting you are correct (obviously), I had not explored the xml editor.
Will look at using it, seems what I'm looking for.
Thank you