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I created a transparent rect (for the purpose of creating an HTML hyperlink around a shape). How do I move it around? When I try, the image that is beneath is selected and moves. The rect stays in place. I try both selecting with the mouse (bounding box is seen) and selecting the object from the lis...

Great! Second time you're helping me today. You made an insanely good tutorial, by the way. Thanks!

Thanks, Xav. The problem was actually that there was another path overlaying my path-of-interest. The other path was the size of the entire canvas, and indeed included all the white spaces that I wanted to turn transparent (this was a bitmap trace). How could I have seen that another area is coverin...

I'm struggling for hours with this simple task. I can select the area and change its fill successfully. But I want it transparent. I tried changing the alpha to 0. I also tried changing the opacity under Blend Mode to 0. These properties are saved correctly, but the area still doesn't seem to be tra...

Well, the title explains itself. I've just traced a bitmap and was confused to see dozens of g elements in my Objects table. Many g elements are nested within each other, for no apparent reason. Do I really need to have a single path nested inside a g, which is nested inside a g, which is nested ins...