Yeah - thanks, Brynn. I really appreciate the ideas. I ended up just taking my pattern, stamping it over my image, combining the paths, and then doing a path>interesection. That seemed to work okay. I actually wanted to convert the pattern to path because I use Inkscape with cutting machines, and th...

Is there a way I can take a shape and convert it to a pattern, fill another shape with that pattern, and then convert the fill pattern just applied back to a path? When I go to Object>Pattern>Pattern to Path, it gives me the original paths of the pattern to edit when I am wanting the paths of the pa...

Thanks for the welcome, Brynn. I had read about the transfer of styles in the help tutorials in inkscape a while back. I just couldn't figure out why it wasn't working for me when combining some shapes. Tomh - that did the trick! I had been searching a bit but couldn't come up with anything - I gues...

I am trying to use the Path>Combine action to make compound paths, however when I do this, sometime the fill does not disappear. The compound path is created, but there is still a fill. I am not sure what is causing this or how to get around it. All the shapes are paths. Attached is an example (I kn...