Brynn's solution as well as path/combine (compound path) will lose one of the objects' paint (fill/stroke) attributes. Yes, I found this to be the case too. I have spent lots of time looking at tutorials and doing trial and error from Inkscape's menus, but it is not doing what I was hoping. I was t...

I would like to be able to take two shapes with two different fills and end up with one image with the fills retained. The following picture illustrates what I am trying to accomplish. The fill for the question mark is transparent before and after the combine. Thanks in advance! http://img517.images...