Hi Polygon,
awesome that helped.
thank you soo much.

There must have been something wrong with this mountains. I played around with other objects and it worked just fine !?!.

Having a workaround makes me happy.

many thanks guys!!!

Hi polygon, thanks!
here is the tutorial I step through and exactly where I got stuck. the link starts at 18:37.
https://youtu.be/81RR_mO-NFI?t=1117

thanks

Hi Moini, thanks for your reply. ... I click on the object to mark it first and then I go to -> menu -> object -> ungroup. (But I also tried Shift-Strg-G for that operation.) after that I draw a rectangle, change this new object to a path, place it it overlapping over the the mountain, mark the moun...

Hi Espermaschine,
thank you very much for your reply,
please see my first post. I wrote quite clearly what I am struggling with.
I can't ungroup the mountain object, and I can't gat a difference.
cheers

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Thank you Moini!!!
yes indeed it does help.
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yay, found a solution ....there ->
http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=18972

select one text object than:
select one of them then use Edit > Select Same > Object Type to hit them all at once.

cool, thanks guys

Hi Brynn, thanks for your quick reply,

Might need to Select All > Ungroup first?

yeah did that does not work

Hi again,

To remove manual kerns all at once, select all objects before by Ctrl+A.

unfortunately that doesn not work. unsuccessfully tried a few hours to find a work around.

thank you very much Lazur you made my day,
that did the trick.

is there a way to standard enable that? not to have to click it for every single line.

thanks again !

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