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Help - My Circle's a Path and Opaque

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 I'm trying to draw a medallion. Two concentric circles with text between the two, like on the edge of a coin.

 I've drawn one circle. I've got the text to 'follow the path' and cling to it. I've rotated the circle so's the text is on the top where I want it.

 Then I draw the second circle, the larger one, which I want to fit over the first.

 I get some hassles with the tool. Three little squares. A tiny circle. Nothing but 'half circles' produced. I find that moving the tiny circle makes a full circle for me. Lovely. Complete the circle and then move it over my first circle-and-text.

 It is opaque. It obscures them.

 I look in properties thinking maybe I can set transparency but find I can set nothing and find the object is known as 'path 2766' !!

 My circle has turned into a path!

 Help. How can I create a transparent circle to complete my little medallion?

regards,

ab

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mahfiaz (mahfiaz) said : 		#1

Ctrl+Shift+F

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abrogard (abrogard-yahoo) said : 		#2

Well I guess that's the answer. Ctrl+Shift+F brings up the fill and stroke box and I can set the colour to white and then the circles is invisible.

But I'm further confused:

1. On doing a test run I made a big circle, then made a little circle, then attached text to the little circle, then moved text and circle onto the big circle. The circle disappeared and the text remained. (The very effect that I want - but how did it happen?) I can't make the circle come back.

2. On another forum they said my difficulties with moving one circle onto another and the first obliterating the second were because the last created object was by default created on an uppermost layer and therefore moving it over the first obliterated the first. But here, today, with this example, there seems to be no obliteration whichever way I go - I can drag the small one onto the big one, I can drag the big one over the small one. Lovely, I like it, buy why? How?

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mahfiaz (mahfiaz) said : 		#3

You can change the order of objects. See Help -> Tutorials -> Basic, see z-order there.

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