Sorry if this is an FAQ but, uh, I couldn't find it in the FAQs or by googling...

I'm using Inkscape 0.48.1 r9760 on Macintosh Snow Leopard. When I cut and paste, either with ctrl-C/ctrl-V or from the edit menu, the shape that gets pasted in has been rasterised into a PNG. So I can't edit the new shape and it doesn't scale. I haven't used Inkscape on Macintosh much, but I think this might have "just changed", possibly by randomly mashing the wrong control keys. I've scoured the menus looking for a "please wreck my selection before adding it to the clipboard" option and found nothing. I tried reinstalling Inkscape and it seems to have kept this behaviour. I'm fairly new to Macintosh so I don't know if zombie settings can live on in a registry or something.

Ring any bells with anyone? Anyone know how I can make it work again? Inkscape is pretty much unusable for me in its current state.

Aha, not unusable! There's a "duplicate selected objects" button. Not as nice as cut and paste, and this is still deeply broken, but it'll do for now.

matthew_exon wrote:Sorry if this is an FAQ but, uh, I couldn't find it in the FAQs or by googling...

Yes, it's in the Inkscape FAQ:

• Copying and pasting in Inkscape creates pixellated images instead of copying the vector objects

… and explained in various topics here in the forum, e.g. 'Re: Mac Snow Leopard?', and some additional details in 'Copy/Paste in MacOS with X11 - question on known bug'.