I know that if you duplicate a group, normally you get another identical group. But what I've found confusing, is that if, after combining, I deselect and then reselect before duplicating, I get a group of 1 object. If I don't deselect in between, I get a group of 2 objects! When combining a group ...

Hi Everyone, Encountered a strange problem tonight. I do a lot of interior shading for objects, usually simple ones, where I duplicate the object, make the dupe black with lowered opacity, duplicate the black duplicate, offset and/or scale the new duplicate according to lighting, and then do Differe...

Thanks for the reply Brynn. Q-zoom could indeed help me out some of the time. I actually am on Ubuntu Linux. I'm sure there's both a way of configuring it to use a dedicated cursor for Inkscape and also getting the "click point" right where I want it on the cursor, but I'm not really a tec...

Hi, Raster apps I've used generally have an option to switch from a changing tool-specific mouse cursor to a "crosshairs" style where the "target" point (exact coordinate point when you click) is always dead center in the cursor. Is there any way to get Inkscape to do this? I'm w...

Thanks, that does let me pare down the process a bit but it still seems like an awful lot of clicking around needed. Oh well.

Hi, I'm having trouble figuring out the fast way of doing something. The object is to be able to mass-produce "cutouts" of different shapes like the 2 already created with minimal clicking around. Ideally I'd like to be able to see what the final result will be as I create the cutout shape...