After you said that about using the Mac, I remembered problems I've had w/some other programs on Mac, which suggest restarting 8 times (not sure why that's a magic number). When I did that & started a new .svg document, the Pixel Smear worked fine. I even tried different things to make it not wo...

Thanks for getting back on this! I tried restarting my .svg document, Inkscape & my computer. I tried applying Pixel Smear to other objects through the filter menu, but it made them all disappear. I also made sure the Type was set to Fractal Noise (which it was already). I tried exporting a desi...

I'm just now starting to play with filters & got myself in a bind. :roll: After playing with the parameters for Pixel Smear on a solid black path & successfully exporting the .png image afterwards, the path turned white while I had another window open. If I remove the filter effect, the path...