Hi, I hope someone here can shed some light on this for me. I am trying to create a simple shape, a sort of filled swoosh shape, here is what I have so far:



So far so good, I created it by drawing two lines with the bezier tool and just dragging a couple of points along the line to create the basic shape, then duplicating it and offsetting the new copy, then dragging its points to touch the other two points creating a closed shape, then combining them with CONTROL+C into one object. It worked fine, but when I fill it, I get this tiny little fine line the same color as the fill from one tip to the other across it. Here is a blown up view showing it:



Its very fine and hard to see in this particular screen grab, its a little more troublesome in the program and it bugs me. It is more visible at one end than the other, and I have to zoom quite far out for it to disappear altogether. I was hoping someone might have an idea why its there and how to get rid of it. Perhaps I am creating this shape in a dumb way?

Thanks for any help.

After you combine the two paths into one object (using control + k, not control+c),they remain as two separate sub-paths ( which get filled separately, then the fill is combined following either non-zero or even-odd fill rules, see fill and stoke dialogue), this is what is causing your problems. What you have to do is to use the node edit tool after the control+k to join up the sub-paths into one path. Do this by selecting the two nodes at one end and use the "join selected endnodes" button on the tool bar (third option along, see the FLOSS Manual.

Hope that is clear, tom

Clear as a bell Tom, and worked like a champ! Thank you very much!