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colors not showing up when you draw circle or rectangles etc

Asked by jagmint

Hi,

when i use the rectangle, circle, star or spiral tool from the left toolbar to draw, it draws as a transparent object. But the stroke and fill box that you see in the bottom left corner as well as the top right corner show the colors i select but they fail to get applied to the object i draw. Seems a very silly problem maybe i have missed something. Please tell me as soon as possible what has gone wrong. I am in a middle of a project and i need to get it completed. I deeply thank you developers and people who help and very grateful for your services...thanks a lot

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jagmint (jagmint) said : 		#1

I have not used any layers visibility or any other complex options. just simply select the rectangle tool and draw and the object draws! but the color and the fill/stroke are transparent even though the fill and stroke properties dialogue box has colors selected.

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Brynn (brynn4inks-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

Well, if we could look at your SVG file, we could tell you really quickly what's happening. Unfortunately, there's no way to do that in this forum. So we'll have to play a guessing game.

Have you used any clipping or masking? Are you working with Groups or Clones? Have you changed the opacity of any Layers ( which is different from visibility)? Have you changed the opacity of any objects? (Opacity is different from the alpha value.)

Here's a tutorial I wrote that will take you through a few steps, to check all the usual suspects, when we hear this problem.
http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?action=articles;sa=view;article=18

If you really are in too much of a hurry for Q and A and back and forth and back, you might want to consider posting in a regular bulletin board style forum (list here: https://inkscape.org/en/community/) or posting in the user mailing list (info here: https://inkscape.org/en/community/mailing-lists/). Then we can look at your file, and hopefully get you back in business with your drawing.

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jagmint (jagmint) said : 		#3

Hi Brynn (brynn4inks),

You are a genius! a knight in the shining armor! you solved my problem. I had opacity turned to 0.0 (what a fool am i!), now after turning it to 100% i can see colors........my vision has returned..haha. thanks for your help. I never expected such quick response to problems. I couldn't get to computer for some reasons and so the delay..

Thank you once again genius!