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The insert position apparently depends where your mouse cursor is at the time of pasting. Probably similar like importing a picture. If your cursor is outside the visible working space it will be pasted at the center of the working space. And if you have centered your page/layer beforehand with resp...

@Moini, ok, that's how it is. However, I don't understand the logic behind. A stroke is a stroke and can be scaled or not. If I don't want it to be scaled I deselect the option "scaling stroke proportionally". Polygons and stars also have a fill and a stroke. Why shouldn't it be possible t...

Thanks, @brynn, for the links. They didn't show up during my search. It somehow seems related. And as I see so far, no simple fix... Attached the simple example from above as SVG... the left shapes was created by converting the triangle to path first, but then I loose the properties and features of ...

If I scale a polygon in one direction, e.g. a triangle, I would expect the result shown on the left. (back=original, red=scaled) However, Inkscape creates the result in the middle. As you can see in the sketch on the right, apparently the thickness of the scaled line depends on the angle of the line...

Raspi wrote: I dont understand where you are getting this from.
Have you tried the Bezier Envelope ? It works.

maybe, then I am using it wrongly.
That's what I get when I apply the Bezier Envelope...
and that's not what I would expect.

It could be all so easy if that Extension wasnt so picky about handle position. are you sure it is the handle position? Isn't the conclusion more: it doesn't matter whether you have a perfectly symmetric 4-point envelope, Inkscape cannot (yet) distort the path in a way you want it to be, i.e. compr...

if you allow for another node, the following could also be a simple solution:
1. create an additional node in the center
2. make this node symmetric
3. drag this node vertically while holding Ctrl-key
4. drag one handle horizontally while holding Ctrl-key

If I understand you correctly... depending on what you want to align to what in which way... Can't you use snapping to guides to align subelements of different groups? Additionally, - if the moving group should not change its x-position hold Ctrl-Key while dragging. - if you have a lot of points che...

@Gitte, are you still here...? If not, the following might also be helpful to others. I still assume you want to include an SVG into MSWord(?) and you don't want to lose the quality of the SVG by converting it to .png or .jpg? Try the following: - open the SVG with Inkscape - select all objects (Ctr...

thanks @ragstian, this looks like the second procedure from above using the command line "inkscape -S File.svg" ... However, python-rvsg, python-cairo are not installed on my system, and what I found so far it seems to be a bit more complicated for windows systems since you need a wrapper....

thanks, @Moini, yes, -verb will require GUI .
Sorry, neither Inkscape GUI nor Inkscape console are practical at all in my case...

I am trying to crop an SVG-File to its bounding box. With the Inkscape GUI it would be the following procedure: 1. start Inkscape GUI 2. load the SVG file 3. Page Properties (Shift+Ctrl+D) 4. resize page to content 5. save the SVG file 6. exit Inkscape However, starting Inkscape GUI takes too long.....

...from your question I assume that you already have an SVG which contains a tool tip? maybe something something like this...? http://www.petercollingridge.co.uk/sites/files/peter/tooltip_basic.svg Btw, seems to be a good tutorial/overview/examples about SVG and interactivity. http://www.petercollin...

Thanks again @Moini, I never thought and would have found that you actually have a choice with the open/save dialogs. A "good" one and a "bad" one, whereas the "bad" one is set as default... ;-) I put it on the wishlist. It shouldn't be a big thing and it shouldn't harm...

Thanks, @Moini, the setting you mentioned is hidden under Preferences (Shift+Ctrl+P) Interface | Windows | Desktop Integration | GTK open/save dialogs If you set it to GTK, it remembers the last file format :-) Well, to my opinion, this actually should be the standard setting after installing Inksca...

@Moini, yes, Win7/64.
gtk or native? Sorry, I don't know. How can I tell the difference? Maybe a hint... the save dialog buttons are in German (probably because my Win7 is in DE) although I set English for Inkscape.
No, I don't see a "recently used" section in the save dialog.

Hi @pcarvalho, welcome to the forum. Maybe a small simplification might be: Open and work on your SVG, do changes and also save it as SVG (Ctrl+S). That's your "Source or working File". If you want a PDF use "Save a copy" (Shift+Ctrl+Alt+S). With this, you keep work working with ...

Do you have a screenshot? How does it look like?
...maybe like this...?

This is called the canvas or page.
You can hide it in the Document Properties.
Press Shift+Ctrl+D | Page tab | Border | uncheck Page border

@Polygon, find attached a sample... I'm curious how this behaves on your versions...

Actually, it's difficult for me to believe that this should be numeric imprecision. A concrete example: One node of a crossing which should be at coordinates x=73.12, y=264.17 is actually located at x=73.023, y=264.348 (that's about 0.1% off. Well, a detail, who cares ;-)). If Inkscape really calcul...

I have set the precision to the maximum (Numeric precision 16 digits and Minimum exponent -10). But I'm not sure whether this at all influences the calculation precision of Inkscape or just determines the SVG number output. Well, if I enlarge the path e.g. by 500% and do the "Stroke to Path&quo...

well, also with (now really) Bézier curves I observe distortions. Blue=original path, Red=Stroke to Path.
This time, the "Stroke to Path" gets even thicker at some place...

Actually, my curves were B-Splines....
Well, for this, there is already a bug report.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1502587
Although, with single paths it seems to work for me but not with combined paths.

OK. Yes... The intuitive, direct way doesn't seem to work without distortions: 1. select combined path 2. Stroke to Path You get distortions. Workaround without distortions: 1. select combined path 2. break appart (fortunately, all the subpaths stay selected) 3. Stroke to Path (fortunately, all the ...

My guess is you have some path effects on the original objects. Not that I know of. I haven't used any LPE. These are just some Bézier curves. There is nothing to convert with Shift+Ctrl+C. The status bar tells me: Path 8 nodes on layer Layer1 Well, if I break this path (Shift+Ctrl+K) into its 4 su...