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line through text

Asked by Sheila

I make a word with seperate letters and then join them. Everything goes well until I save my file to a SVG format. Afterwards, a line goes across the word.

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Alexandre Prokoudine (alexandre-prokoudine) said : 		#1

Hi,

I'm sorry, but I don't quite understand what you mean. Could you provide samples that illustrate the problem please?

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Sheila (sheilasettles) said : 		#2

These are the steps I took:

(View - display mode - outline)
Typed the following letter seperately. S H E I L A
Moved the letter so they were touching each other.
(Path - Object to path)
(Path - Union)
(File - Save As ___.SVG)
PROBLEM... After the file is saved a line appears across the word. I downloaded the program off of the internet and am using it for scrapbooking. I have not had a problem with images I have imported as a bitmap and then saved as a SVG file. They were all as I had saved them. I use a CRICUT cutting machine and when I import the SVG file into my cutting program it thinks this line is part of the image and when cutting, cuts the word in half. Someone said it may be that I have not registered the software but I am unclear and how to do that and if it is needed.

Thank you so much for trying to help me resolve this problem. I don't know how to send a sample on this site so I hope my explanation will be enough.

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Alexandre Prokoudine (alexandre-prokoudine) said : 		#3

Oh, I see now! That's definitely a bug, but it is already solved in upcoming 0.47 version - I've just tried it and I cannot reproduce it.

By the way, Inkscape is open source software, mostly freely available for anyone. We do not have a concept of locking features or adding watermarks here :)

If you cannot use test version of 0.47 (http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?M=D), you can send me your file to <email address hidden> and I'll send you resulted SVG file that will hopefully not have this ugly line (I'll test on 0.46 too).

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Alexandre Prokoudine (alexandre-prokoudine) said : 		#4

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