@Xav Thank you for the link and the reminder about how CAD worked. How do you find Inkscape WRT shortcuts and especially changing focus between different parts of the interface? Could it be improved? @MARSZ try to install lubuntu on the old machine, or some other linux designed for old-machines. I f...

Love the 1-key shortcuts in Inkscape. Wish there was a little command-box to enter stuff, something like, for example: s lw 1,2 [enter] (set linewidth to 1,2). Love things like: ctrl-d, ctrl-x, ctrl -> ctrl ->, z, clickclickclick, s, ctrl-v, . , . , ctrl-. . Like to use the command prompt on me lap...

A workaround could be to copy the text objects, move them outside the sketch area, scale the sketch (without the duplicate original text objexts), then copy the original text objects and paste styles only (one style at a time). The steps are: copy an original text objext, select the relevant scaled ...

256 GB RAM? Really? Or is that hard disk drive and not RAM?

What type of SVGs are they? Do they have many objects? Are some of the objects images (raster)? What is your Bitmap export resolution (Inkscape preferences > Bitmap)?

I wish I had that too. There was a bug report about some bugs relating this, but I can't seem to find it now.

But you can submit a new wishlist item, we're still on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/

I'd love to have this feature. Having to fiddle too much with arrows and mouse can be annoying.

BTW your screenshots would be easier to view if you cropped them horizontally too

Hello Tech_Sau! Welcome to the forum!

What kind of drawings would you like to create?

Inkscape is so easy to use you can install and start playing with it without a lot of knowledge.

Have you used any other vector graphics software? How did you get to Inkscape?

Was it some browser on windows that you didn't or couldn't use on linux, like IE or Edge? They might have different "rules" about how to display SVG. They're usually not the browsers who lead in implementing web standards the fastest, though I'm no expert on this.

Super-realism can be achieved even in vector graphics. Take a look at these from the Inkscape website gallery: https://inkscape.org/en/~luizrezende/%E2%98%85sandra-bullock https://inkscape.org/en/~TimJones/%E2%98%85vespa-90-super-sprint https://inkscape.org/en/~DanielL/%E2%98%85smart-car-brabus Or t...

Most Inkscape users on Linux change their window manager Alt key to something else - Alt+click is essential for using Inkscape in a swift and convenient way - we even have an FAQ item for it :) I've never bothered changing mine. Instead of Alt+click or Alt+drag I use Super+Alt+Click/Drag, where Sup...

Hello! Is this is a repeat study? I remember seeing something similar before :) Heh yes v1nce this forum won't statistically differentiate a lot on that question :mrgreen: BTW we can't leave our email addresses here because it's a public forum, but participants can leave their address in the survey....

Hello TavernSenses! Welcome to the forum! These needs to come up sometimes, when you want to make a hole in your drawing for example. But there isn't an easy way to just select Invert. You have to create an object that covers the area you want to keep. Usually you first create the object shape you w...

You don't have to reorder them through the interface. Open the SVG file in a text editor, and add the missing attributes to turn the groups into layers manually, by typing them. I expect the groups will be in the exact same order the layers were ;) so simply adding the correct pieces of text to them...

What type of objects do you have in your SVG?

Are your objects within the Page area?

Is the object you're trying to change a PNG or SVG? The image you attached is PNG, you might need to host elsewhere for SVG. If it's SVG look to the Statusbar to see what object type you have in selection. Ungroup if it's a group (or double-click to enter it) so you can select individual objects. On...

Are the two objects the same size and position? If they aren't it's clear from the bounding box markings what object is selected.

And as Xav said, checkerboard background helps.

phiscribe could you please add to that issue on GitLab? Your observations won't do much good in here (this forum is mostly user support). Your experience is invaluable to Inkscape to figure out what is missing, which way to go, industry pain points etc. Expand if you can on all points if you can. Th...

You can also take a look at Tiling, Scale and Tracing:

http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Tiles.html
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL ... Scale.html
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL ... Trace.html
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL ... ricks.html

I'm getting correct output in Optimized SVG.

It could be your preferences, or the Optimize settings. Can you share what you had chosen there?

Welcome to the forum!

The file you attached only contains paths, not Text objects. Is this the optimized file? Can you attach the original one so we can try ourselves and see if it goes wrong? Or maybe share more details about what objects you're creating and what the symptoms are.

What type of an object is it then? When you ungroup, what does the Statusbar say?

Welcome to the forum

It seems to be working as expected for me, I don't have to hold Ctrl while creating a node to be able to use Ctrl later to snap angles.

What is your OS, and Inkscape version?

Wellcome to the forum! What is the Opacity of those objects when you select them? You may have to get inside groups to be able to select individual objects (Double click the group, or Ctrl + click). Once you select an object (look to the Statusbar, it will tell you what is selected) look in the bott...

There are a number of ways to do it, one is to take what you get from Tracing and edit to get only the line from the edge you want. But if you want to do it manually without Tracing, using only the original drawing, do this: Break apart the "brain" :mrgreen: (Shift + Ctrl + K) to get all i...

You can try with Trace bitmap Brightness threshold or Edge detection, but you'll have to clean it up after the trace to only keep one of the edges of each "line". https://inkscape.org/en/doc/tutorials/tracing/tutorial-tracing.html http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Trace.html Sin...