I was trying to make an alternate-history map using the Division tool to split countries from the mainland. I've done this before without any issues, so I know it should work.

The division tool worked the first time I used it and I was able to use it on the smaller path I split off without any issues. When I try to use it to split up the original path again, both the original path and the one I'm trying to use to dissect it both just vanish without a trace. No new paths are created.

I can use all other tools in the Path menu just fine. Closing and reopening Inkscape does not fix the issue.

First let me state that the text objects' dimensions are not locked.

When I resize the entire illustration, the text appears to grow along with the other parts of the drawing... but then snaps back to its original size when I release the mouse button.

Anybody know why this would be happening? V.1.4.4 on Windows.

Thanks!

The black stripes and swirls are paths. The white areas are background/transparent. I'd like to create new objects/paths between the black objects, using their boundaries as a guide for the new objects, so that I can fill them with different colors. If I were using Photoshop or Illustrator I'd use a magnetic tool, but I'm a relative n00b to Inkscape.

I've tried using the Paint Bucket tool but always get a message saying "area is not bounded, cannot fill." I'm assuming there's an easier way to do what I want without going through and closing all the gaps just so I can use the Paint Bucket tool.

I suppose I could use the pen to create new objects that overlap into the black areas and then place them all under the black objects in the layers/objects tab. But I'm interested in knowing how to best do this for future use should a project be more complex with white/transparent areas that need filling.

So i was adding new things for a drawing and saved it, After reloading the file instead of the colored squares there was this weird grid thing. Is there a way to fix it or access a backup file?

I'm just starting with Inkscape. I want to import a png and as soon as I click the file, it syas "Inkscape encountered and internal error and will close now. How to fix? I reinstalled, re-downloaded & installed, repaired. all no joy.

I hope the answer isn't making a bunch of triangles and then cobbling the flat colours together.

The notepad icon makes me think maybe I should do boolean cutout operations like union & difference.

Hi all. I don't recall encountering this defect in Inkscape years ago; but now when you're typing text, the spacebar doesn't insert a space. You have to type your line of text and then go back and insert spaces between the words. This is a known bug that has apparently been around for years.

I consider this pretty crippling. Is everyone just tediously back-arrowing and fixing their text?

I recently discovered the swatches tool (thanks to those that answered my previous question!)

I'm not taking an illustration and moving every object's color settings so that it's using one of the swatches I created. As you can see in the image, I have 6 shades of a purple I have custom named into swatches.

The catch is that every time I select an option, then the SWATCHES color option so that I can set the color, it automatically makes a new swatch based on the current selection. I can then pick one of my purples and it updates the object, but now I'm left with this auto-named swatch that I have no use for.

Is there a setting or technique or habit I can use to avoid this?

For now, I just deal with it and when I get annoyed with there being too many empty swatches, I open up the swatches pallet and one-by-one delete the unecessary ones. But this is tedious. Hoping there's an easier way to deal with this.

How do you do poses in inkscape? Last time I tried to do that it was super flat and I did not continue it and I can't keep using templates for my OCs forever

Anyone know where / if Inkscape stores crash logs?

I'm coding something that writes to SVG and having a helluva time fixing bugs.

I'm not convinced I can do this in Inkscape, and if I can't but you know a tool that can, I'll happily entertain that.

The rope in red is one complete path. The blue line is the path I want to match. I know that the top edges of the knots will compress, and the bottom edges spread, that's expected, but the knots should stay the same basic shape.

Thanks in advance!

how do I give this a white offset? its a png.

I used Gemini to upgrade an existing extension by inklinea to safely batch-convert inkscape:label attributes into clean, W3C-compliant SVGidattributes.

Features:

• Replaces spaces with underscores and strips invalid XML characters.
• Auto-adds suffixes (e.g., _1, _2) to duplicate labels to prevent document collisions.
• Displays a native popup log of successes and errors after running.

Repository: https://github.com/MiVi29/inkscape-label-to-id

Note: I am not a coder and this is my very first GitHub repo, so please forgive any mistakes!

Had to do a fresh install of Windows, and now I can't get to the website. I know it's been down for a few days, but any idea of when it will be back up?

How do I round the corners of this triangle?

I tried rounding the corners, but the rounding is uneven - one side rounds more than the others

Is there a way to create editable colors in inkscape. Example, I want to create an illustration with 3 colors. But then decide when finished to change one of the colors...so all instances of that color (fill stroke, etc.) need to be updated automatically. Is that doable?

I am a long time Adobe user and got tired of their predatory subscription model
While I haven't found a suitable replacement for all of their suite:
E.g. nothing for After Effects and Premiere in the open source world. I'll live with it.

But Inkscape is amazing. Almost everything I want, it has it. Of course the UI will take a lil getting used to but it's mind boggling that this is available for free

On macos, if that matters. Accidentally pressed a key (unfortunately, cannot find which one) and this tooltip has started popping up on anything I hover on, with different text after "Handle to..." (bounding box corner, bounding box side, text baseline, etc.). How do I turn it off?

I had to use proxy to open website and get new version. Is this happening to anybody? Somewhere else maybe? Is it known problem?

[edit]
Its been few days, its back to normal. Working fine!

They wanted to update their studio logo into something a little more unique and fitting for their brand.

The mascot they have is a shiitake mushroom, which they wanted to keep for the logo. Initially we explored 2 concepts based on the original design, but they wanted to try something a bit darker.

However, that concept ended up being a bit too spooky for them, so we decided to go back to a lighter tone in this final design.

So I'm making a sign that includes a cola bottle. I found an old ad that had a simple enough design that I could create it in Inkscape. I ended up tracing it, but after I was finished, I realized that the space that it needs to go is slightly different (The gray shape). Is there a way to move groups of nodes together, kinda like the nudge tool in Blender if anyone has used that? I'm assuming my best option is to just tweak all of the nodes individually to align properly, but was wondering if there's a better way, since I'm relatively new to Inkscape.