Ahhh. Perfect, thanks!

Sorry, I'm quite a beginner,

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I followed the instructions found here: http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/inkscape/ss/bezier-heart_5.htm in order to make a heart and found it fairly easy to do and am very pleased with the shape of the heart I have made. Unfortunately, there is a small, thin, vertical line in the middle of my heart ...

Thanks both for such great replies, I didn't realise that I could snap to paths and such. So far, I have only been using that sort of thing for angles when rotating! But then this is my first illustration, so I'll let myself off this once, :) I have a couple of other questions/problems, now that I h...

Thanks very much for the explanation. It will probably come in handy at some point, but I have many lines, so using brynn's method of layering works better for me in this situation. For my next graphic I will try drawing the "unnatural" way, but I am so unartistic that will be quite a chal...

Welcome to our forums! The Paint Bucket might work with the grow setting after all. Try using the Selection tool and changing the z-order. Make sure the paths are on top of the bucket fill areas. If it still doesn't work, please try the Fill and Stroke dialog. If your image is very complex, especia...

What I think you've done is draw a shape using Bezier lines, then used the bucket tool :tool_paintbucket: 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 ...

Hi, I've created an .svg with several straight and curved lines, and it's important that they stay intact. I'm at the final stage and now need to "fill in" areas with colour, and have just discovered the problem with the colour bucket leaving white space around items. Setting the grow isn'...