thanks, now everything is clear! about your confusion: ideally the pdf should be exported as pdf again. but this is just possible if no rectangles are used for anonymisation. so in cases there are just some names and other (text) values who have to be removed it is good that inkscape can do that and...

thanks for your replies! yes i know that, but as i mentioned i need it to edit PDF file and Inkscape was the only good open source tool i found. or do you may know an other one? i just see with gimp it is possible as well to edit pdf files but they are handled like pictures, so it is for example not...

hmm i just installed gimp to try it there but how do you get layers there? i made an example, exported it as svg as well as png but never see layers :/

damn, i have to find a way to anonymiz it. it does not help me if it can be revoked with any other problem. but i dont really get how it is possible since png is also just saving one layer isnt it?! but you said gimp leaves you an white hole? so maybe it is just one layer and since you remove the re...

hey, thanks for your fast reply and the nice welcoming :) i will try it again :) i am having a PDF document with patient information, strings as well as pictures in it. this i am opening in Inkscape. i have to get rid of all the information identifying a person. removing parts of the string is no pr...

hey guys, sorry bothering you with that message but i did not find an answer somewhere. i am editing PDF files for anonymisation issues. for that reason i am adding a black rectangel over the eyes for example. when i save this file again as a PDF this rectangle can be easy removed. so i tried to wor...