The reason I am doing all of this is that I need to scale the map to a different page size.
Scaling does not seem to affect the cliparea so I need to disable that. I will end up either
cutting the paths or adding a new clip area later.

Don

> I'm sure you'll get much more meaningful replies once we can download and examine the file. Yes, of course. Sorry for the delay, the network connection to the system the file is on went down yesterday. This is the original file from the Open Street Map tools, before I edited anything. the clipPath...

I attached it with my first reply. I don't know how to see attachments in this interface, but it didn't give any errors when I attached it.

Don

I found something that looks like a top level clipPath. This is at line 9113 of the sample file: <svg:clipPath id="map-clipping"> <svg:rect id="map-clipping-rect" x="0px" y="0px" height="171.043180233843px" width="114.599999999996px" /> </s...

The area outside the existing drawing is clickable, and I can add a rectangle. But I only see the selection outline and points. As soon as I unselect it, it disappears (and yes the fill and stroke are on). I can re-select it again, if I can find it, so its there just not visible. No luck with other ...

Is there a setting for the drawing's visible area? If so I do I modify it? I have an svg file that was exported by another application. I can read it into Inkscape and edit things fine as long as I stay within the original visible area. If I extend an existing object or draw a new object outside tha...