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Questions about using the Inkscape vector-graphics application. Questions about how to install the application should go on Super User. Questions about scripting should go on Stack Overflow.

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How to edit Inkscape measure text for small measures?

Here's an example: open Inkscape 0.91, draw a line about 10+ pixels in lenght, and use the Extensions / Visualize Path / Measure Path ... : Set the font to 5 px here; and note the text box of measure … If you say OK to this, and select the text box: If you select it with normal pointer, it says below "Text on path [truncated]" (see also Inkscape - Dev - NEW: truncated text indication); if you switch …
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SVG document units and font size in Inkscape?

Using Inkscape 1.2: I start a new blank document File / Document properties; I first change Display units to pt; then change Front page: Format: Custom pt; I get scale 2.834646 as Scale (pt per user unit … How did Inkscape arrive at 4.23333px from the original 12pt ? …
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Move group by aligning its child object in Inkscape?

Any way to do this easily in Inkscape? …
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Reuse guide/lines from background image for perspective view/3D cube in Inkscape?

Let's say I have a screenshot of the Blender default cube as a background in Inkscape, and I would like to reconstruct this cube as the perspective view 3D cube in Inskcape. … However, is there a way to somehow "automatically" apply these traced guidelines, to become the guidelines of the perspective view 3D cube in Inskcape, such that the perspective view 3D cube (Shift+F4) in Inkscape
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Reuse guide/lines from background image for perspective view/3D cube in Inkscape?

Ok, found how to do this manually - it would have been much easier if it was possible to control the angle of a guideline in Inkscape with two points, but anyway... …
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Inkscape stroke width and SVG position?

Is this a standard/unchanging behavior of Inkscape: that whatever the settings in the SVG, ultimately Inkscape will show (svg width + stroke width) for W, (svg height + stroke width) for H, (svg x - stroke … stroke width outside, half stroke width inside ) Or is it controllable by some switch in Inkscape? …
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Where is "Distribute Horizontal Space" in Inkscape 1.0+?

I made the mistake of interpreting the above screenshot as one from Inkscape, but if one compares the Align panel from Inkscape, there is no such function: Is there something like Adobe Illustrator's … "Distribute Horizontal Space" in Inkscape 1.0.2 - and if so, how do I get to it? …
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How to shorten or lengthen an angled line segment along original angle in Inkscape?

Say, I've drawn an angled line segment in Inkscape, using Bezier Pen tool with Ctrl to snap angles, like this (where I have a 30 degree angle): Here is an animated gif from How to snap line segments to … specific angles in Inkscape? …
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Managing styles with CSS classes in Inkscape

I checked in Inkscape 1.2, this is now called Object/Selectors and CSS; this pane is basically empty, unless you click on an object. … So, I tried the following in Inkscape 1.2: Create an empty .svg file using the Inkscape command line - either of these will do: # the below works - generates .svg file with sodipodi and such: inkscape
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Inkscape font size: what is its meaning / how is it related to text height?

So, if I type "Heppo" instead of "Hello", I can measure text size height of 11.448 pt in Inkscape - and if I type "Sphinx" (as in the Wikipedia page example), I finally measure text size height of 12.000 … pt in Inkscape. …
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Inkscape font size: what is its meaning / how is it related to text height?

- I made a document in Inkscape 1.2, changed all units to pt, scale to 1.0; then added text with font size of 12pt, did "Resize to content", and saved: So, the ultimate size of the document, which is … So, what is the actual meaning of font size in Inkscape/SVG? Obviously it is not the height of "M" (nor the width, as it is approximately square). …
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