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Bounding boxes oversized and not transparent

Asked by Eric Prechtl

Hi,

I'm using Inkscape and have some triangular shapes with a certain fill. All of a sudden, as I copy & paste shapes or at what seem like random times, the bounding box around the shape gets oversized by ~ 30% on all sides. The same things seems to happen with my text. The biggest problem with this is that if the oversized bounding box lays on top of a nearby object, it changes the tint of the other object (this is related to the fact that I have semi-transparent fills on some of the objects). I'm also having a weird effect where text that I have, I can't get it to to 'move to the top' - it seems stuck behind one of my objects. These are weird bugs. Is these some kind of setting I triggered - or is my software on the fritz?

I'd send screen grab images of what I'm seeing if there was a way to upload files...

Thanks,

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Best su_v (suv-lp) said : 		#1

Likely you changed the blend mode of one of the layers in your document to something other than 'Normal'.

Layer blend modes are filter effects - if you copy an objects from a layer with such a blend mode, the blend filter effect is applied to the object itself before it is pasted elsewhere (to keep same appearance). Filter effects often have an enlarged filter effects region (+20%), which is indicated by the larger selection cue of the visual bounding box - this is what you notice when you paste such objects which have inherited a layer blend mode.

To fix this, two steps:
1) reset the layer blend mode (best to check all layers in the current document if they have the intended setting)
2) for affected objects pasted elsewhere: select the objects and apply menu 'Filters > Remove Filters'

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Eric Prechtl (eiic) said : 		#2

That worked fantastically! Thank you!