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Inkscape - Separating part of a path

Asked by hazydavey

I have transformed a bitmap in a vectorialized image. The result is good, but is made up of a huge single path, and i need to separate this in a number of paths. Every path must be an object with a given Id. I don't manage to separate a portion of the original path and obtain the new object. I've tryed in many ways, without achieving my goal. Sorry for my English, I'm italian!

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prkos (prkos) said : 		#1

You can try Path > Break Apart (Shift + Ctrl + K).

Then edit the object properties of each path to change the ID.

You can also look into other Path operations (under Path menu).

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hazydavey (maurinews) said : 		#2

No, it was too simple. My picture is very complex, so if I use "break apart" it's broken in many parts too little and messy. What I need is a precision work. I'm forced doing it by hand, I don't want a quick or automated way to do it. Illustrator allow it in a simple way, but I would use Inkscape.

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Alexandre Prokoudine (alexandre-prokoudine) said : 		#3

Cutting/Pasting standalone nodes isn't possible indeed. But you could try separating them with "Cut path" boolean operation.

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hazydavey (maurinews) said : 		#4

I don't succeed to have some result using "Cut path". I select the nodes I want to separate from the others, I click on "Cut Path", but nothing happens.
In the meanwhile, I've solved my problem in a more complicated way: I circle the borders of the path that I need with shift+F6, then I select the new object created and the principal one toghether. I select Object-Clip-Set and I have the path I need isolated from the rest. Then is enough to cut and past the object in a new document and so on. If there is a way to do it more rapidly, I would know it, but I can work by now. Thank You all.