EDIT: Alrighty, I guess you did understand my problem correctly, I just didn't understand what the union command was supposed to do. The only problem with that is that in my case the state borders are very detailed and adjacent borders don't match up correctly everywhere, so a simple union leaves th...

Hey brynn, Thanks for the info, I'll give those links a read through. I guess I should have made my problem a little more clear, but what I want the end result to be is a single border running around all the states, i.e. a border made up of only those bits of state border that are on the outside edg...

Hey all, I'm totally new to Inkscape, and I'm having a little trouble editing an svg. What I need to do is be able to select several nodes from an object/path (is there a difference), and then create a new object/path from those nodes. The actual task I'm trying to accomplish with this is to create ...