Hi,
I changed some features / added new ones which make it easier to prepare vectors for vinyl cutting, laser engraving and embroidery:
1. I changed the behaviour of "Path->Stroke to Path": It now recurses into groups and creates a duplicate of any object which has a visible fill, so you end up with one object showing the original stroke and the original object without the stroke.
2. I added "Path->Remove Overlap": It removes all overlap of the selected objects using boolean operations, resulting in a visually (nearly) unchanged document where objects don't overlap.
3. I added "Object->Clip->Intersect": It replaces every selected object by the intersection of the object and all clipping paths affecting the object or it's ancestors.
4. I added "Edit->Clone->Unlink Clones recursively": It recurses into groups and unlinks every clone it finds, including clones used as clipping paths.
This is the merge request:
https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape+alexander/inkscape/flatten/+merge/26079...
Opinions?
Regards, Alexander