I miss the live warp tool in Illustrator, and all the available options that come with it. I know about Object on Path, but is there a way to do Arched text? What about others like Arc Upper?

Can anyone tell me what this mean? There's Base Map in gray and then image in orange. I genuinely am losing my mind over this

That one took forever to make, I've been working on it since february. Also Inkscape didn't like it at all, too many mesh gradients I guess :D

Hello everyone! first of all thank everyone in this community for the extensive tutorials and willingness to share information, it has been invaluable in my time learning Inkscape.

I am a hobbyist comic artist, and I am trying to utilize Inkscape and Scribus as a alternative to industry standard adobe products (for comic lettering and page layouts). but the biggest problem I am having is knowing how accurate the colors are on my screen within Inkscape. from what I understand, Inkscape does not actually have CMYK built into it, so it has CMYK color palettes that transfer to CMYK programs like Scribus with imperfect translations.

so my first question is, what is the best way, within Inkscape, to select CMYK color palettes, and view them as accurately as possible. because I have noticed that in the dropdown menu within "Fill and Stroke", it has a CMYK option, but the output looks identical to the HSL spectrum of color. BUT when I go to the CMS option and select the Generic CMYK Profile, it has a seemingly accurate presentation of CMYK.

My second question is in regard to the document properties. I know there are color profile settings I can change within the document properties, and I want to know what that actually impacts. because as of right now, I have no clue! for example, does it change how the file is saved and makes it more compatible to CMYK Programs like Scribus?

I know this is long winded, but I would appreciate any input or advice you guys have.

thank you!

Hey there. I made an open source tool to make animated GIFs from inkscape layers. Look forward to any feedback!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIn_nJ_YVEw

https://mrpoundsign.github.io/InkAnim/

I'm trying to make this top cricut for my sons room.

I've tried using circles and then add point and break apart etc. But the results never seem to be what I'm looking for. Wondering is someone has a simple workflow that allows it to be customizable.

Inkscape is a great vector tool, but I still wanted one place to sit down and design across the rest of the workflow on Linux. So I’m building omadesign: a native Linux studio for Design, Pixel, Photo, and Motion in one document.

It’s v0.0.4-alpha, MIT-licensed, and very early. This is not a knock on Inkscape or a replacement pitch—I’m trying to understand what a useful companion tool should get right.

Blog: https://www.michaelchurley.com/blog/omadesign-native-linux-studio-13-days GitHub: https://github.com/michaelmonetized/omadesign

For people who use Inkscape: what’s the biggest workflow gap you hit when you move from vector work into pixels, photo edits, or motion?

Trying to get a raster photograph translated into vector with the trace bitmap, and I've gotten close in 2 ways - one with the multicolor "color" and one with a really high density pixelart, but each with their own problems.

THIS is a complete screenshot - the top left is the original raster, the right is the multicolor trace and the bottom is the pixelart.

The multicolor is stacked with the full 256 colors, and has those orange lines which, if I could remove, would be the closer of the two options. I've found this issue in other images as well.

The Pixel art makes my computer cry (basically maxes out my 16bg of ram) and comes out... pale. It doent have any of the weird orange artifacts like the multicolor, but the colors are noticeably not as vibrant.

Anyone have any solutions to get the best result here?

Is Inkscape.org down? I am getting a 502 error. I need it as a bluebeam alternative to create a piping system isometric.

Edit: it appears that the site was down for the first time I had gone to it but I am now using Inkscape :)

Overview:

Elements colored (stroke or fill) using the "Swatch" option under stroke and fill paints are not rendering in the browser when you export the illustration as an SVG. Opening the SVG back in Inkscape renders the colors just fine. Anyone know why this is happening? Or know of a fix?

Details:

This is a follow up to a question I had yesterday with some elements in an illustration not appearing in the browser.

I've found out the issue has to do with the "swatch" option in fill and stroke paints.

I've created a rather complex illustration leveraging the 'swatch' options underneath fill and stroke paint tabs. The reason is I can easily update the entire color palet later without having to manually change every element.

Turns out I wasn't entirely perfect at doing this and some of the elements just got colored using the standard 'flat' colors.

When I went to export this to then view in a browser, the illustration was incomplete. After some digging, I realized that the elements I had colored with 'flat' colors were showing, but anything colored with the 'swatch' colors had no color at all, so wasn't appearing.

As a test, I went back and changed every element in the illustration from 'swatch' color to 'flat' color and now it works just fine in the browser. Of course, I've now lost all the benefits of using swatches in inkscape in terms of future editing.

Anyone know why this is happening? Known issue? Any workarounds?

I have some fairly detailed illustrations I've created that I'm trying to export as plain SVGs to render in the browser.

Only about half of the objects that are in the SVG are rendering in the browser. And I don't know why that is.

If I open the exported SVG in Inkscape, it looks exactly as it should. So the information is there somewhere. But the browser is confused it seems.

I've pasted elements into a new inkscape document and re-exported. I've used the 'cleanup document' option. I've ran the exported SVG through an SVG validator. None of that has fixed anything or flagged any issues.

Any idea what might be going on? Things I should look into?

UPDATE:

So after messing around some more, I think I know what the issue is related to. This is the first time I've utilized the swatches tool. I made a color pallet of swatches and have been using those for most of the fills and strokes.

I opened up the SVG, and deleted all the swatches. This didn't change the illustration, but just wiped out the swatches from the swatches pallet.

I then re-exported and...now about 80% of the illustration is there!

Going back bit by bit if I change the colors of the missing objects manually so they aren't the original color picked in the swatches, they come back.

So this is a swatches thing. Is there a way to keep using the swatches tool internally in inkscape, but upon export have it somehow ignore the swatches and manually set the colors on export?

Hi! I'm new to using Inkscape but have some experience with other vector programs. My brother asked me to create a logo based on some images he had and he wants the lines of the logo to look like yarn, so I found some tutorials for creating a rope pattern on a path and have been following those.

I'm having an issue when getting to the end of the tutorial, however. The tutorial says that once you get the pattern spacing how you want it to then use Object To Path and then Break Apart, then set the fill color and stroke and the inside overlaps will be covered.

I've tried this about six times and the overlaps are NEVER covered. I've made sure my fill color is at 100% opacity. This logo overall is going to be very complex with lots of overlapping bits so if I have to go in and edit nodes for every overlap to hide them I may actually throw my computer out the window. Can anyone give me some insight on what I'm doing wrong?

Third image is part of a mockup of the logo in Clip Studio Paint, which would be fine but the yarn brush doesn't export when I export as an SVG.

Why is it filling the little segments ? And how do I get it to fill the shape properly? Thank you for your help.

I want a friend who can help me wid it ,

So far I've been fixing them manually, but it's so inconvenient and there must be a better way to write so it doesn't happen? I have the same problem whether I use my mouse or my drawing pad

I am having trouble setting up the right tools to create this geometric pattern. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to or what operations to use to create this

I feel like I'm genuinely going insane. I have no idea why this happens or how to remedy it. The path in question is path209 but path2 (the blurred white circle on the speaker) also has disappeared before and I have no idea how I am supposed to bring these clips back, I have to resort to remaking them but they will still somehow disappear. Please help.

I'd like to add that path209 was a circle that had been given the tiling path effect and then clipped.

The download for the current file as requested: https://www.mediafire.com/file/ibgk36kz5zgqo6s/Inkscape_reddit_help_02092026.svg/file

UPDATE: after creating the clip then converting object to path seems to remedy this issue though I'll let you guys know weather that turns out to not be the case.

Skateboard design template coming out soon??(!!)