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Help Using Inkscape => Inkscape Beginners' Questions => Topic started by: amonk on May 29, 2018, 05:31:18 AM
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I ma new to inkscape, so hopefully I am missing something fairly obvious. I cannot import an external image (I have tried jpg, png, and gimp formats). I have gone into file>import and when I go to the appropriate directory, where I have a vast number of images, it does not seem to recognise there are any images there to import. So I cannot even click on a file to import it. If I try to simple drag and drop into inkscape, nothing happens. I have also tried simply copying and pasting an image, and again this does not work. Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong? I have the most up to date version installed.
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Welcome to the forum!
Please tell us specifically which version you have (you can find in Help menu > About Inkscape). (Even though you say "most up to date version" depending on where you got it, they might not really have the current stable version.) I see you're on Windows, so please also tell us which package you downloaded (exe, msi, or 7z).
This is the first I've heard this problem. I guess I would worry that either it did not install correctly, or possibly you accidentally downloaded the wrong package. Since you mentioned "windows 64", this is where you should choose a package: https://inkscape.org/en/release/0.92.3/windows/64-bit/
If you already did choose one of those, and it was either exe or msi, I would suggest uninstalling and reinstalling. Don't use the Update option, but instead, completely uninstall and reinstall. If you chose the 7z package....uninstalling would consist of just deleting it and downloading it and extracting (or unpacking) again.
If that doesn't help, then hopefully someone else will have an idea. Or else we might need to take this problem to the developers to solve. But one step at a time. Let's try the most logical step first, and move on from there :)
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Also make sure that in the lower right corner of the dialog, it shows the correct file type to open, and not something that isn't in your directory.
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Also make sure that in the lower right corner of the dialog, it shows the correct file type to open, and not something that isn't in your directory.
Oh right! And sometimes you have to choose "All Files" in the "Files of Type:" dropdown menu.
Maybe it's that simple :xf2: