I have been using Inkscape for a couple of years - no real problems until today when I opened a blank page and the first thing I drew (be it a line, rectangle, whatever) is light blue instead of black. Stroke is a black square at the bottom left of the screen, O:100. If I go to ctl/shift F there see...

I have an engineering drawing which is a mixture of line widths, types (e.g. dashed, dotted), colours and opacities and various symbols and figures similarly varied. When I send it to a fully functional colour printer I only get part of the drawing printed. If I import the svg file into Gimp and pri...

Thanks guys. T'was the version (old). Really grateful for your time and effort.

Try to answer the questions: Don't know how I get a triangle - I move the top right node and as soon as I release it it shoots to a point on the rectangle's diagonal and I have a triangle and there are now only 3 nodes. I never interfere with the prefs. snap distance as I do not want snapping. I loo...

I have been using Inkscape for many months. One common activity is to extend straight lines or the shapes of polygons by dragging a node (diamond). For some reason, I guess I accidentally hit the wrong key sequence, the program is not behaving. When I drag a node it will not stay where I want it to ...

Hi, I've read all this but the answer to a really basic matter seems to be missing. Open InkScape from the desktop icon. Create a new drawing , make units mm, select A4, draw a simple rectangle and press "save" - nothing happens, press "save as" - nothing happens, press "Clo...