Hi everyone,

I have a recurent problem with Inkscape for which I am desesperate to find a solution. I use Inkscape for work, and I often have to import curves from .ps or .pdf file to then fit them into a schematic or a scale. The problem is that I often have no control on the ps/pdf file, and if I must significantly rescale the curve, it exhibit different stroke widths. I can easily create another path using that follows almost exactly the original path, but this is a inelegant and time-consuming process. Therefore, I am looking for a way to make a non-uniform stroke uniform, e.g with the same width accross the whole curve.

I have included a example here https://mega.nz/#!kcMkyDhS!LYtBgMp1qKZIKLNz8JRPqTL4MdFoA88ayuK0gDed4yg, in hope it helps.
Thanks a lot in advance to anyone who would suggest a solution, this problem have been annoying me for a long time now.

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Sorry. It should work now.

Try Ctrl+Shift+K (Menu: Path>Break-Apart). Seems to work here.

One object needs clip removed and ungrouped.

I also don't understand why it looks like this, but if you just ungroup everything, it will look right.

Maybe worth a new bug report? Or does anyone else have a rational explanation for this behaviour?

(@HcN: if you'd like to help investigating, file a report at https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape - also attach the original pdf there (and a screenshot of how it is supposed to look, maybe), and tell people about your Inkscape version and operating system)

Interesting is right... my Win8 machine will normalize the strokes by just ungrouping, but my XP machine also requires break-apart. :-/

Edit: Discovered that XP machine has preserved transforms... seems that is causing the difference. Transforms seem to be related to the stroke widths.

I asked the same question on stackexchange (http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/67696/make-stroke-uniform-from-curves-imported-from-a-pdf-or-ps/67705#67705) (but you were the first to reply ), and they said that my curves are grouped with a transformation matrix that is responsible for the issue. Ungrouping it does the trick, and I feel a bit foolish not to have noticed that myself .

Anyway, many thanks for you quick answers ! I can finally correct all my figures. I still do not get where this matrix is, how to formally remove it or even how to see it, but ungrouping (and regrouping) everything works for me.