I've made an extension to produce a dashed path in Inkscape. It will use the Dashed pattern in the stroke style and will explicitly cut the path to correspond to the dash pattern. This is a response to the discussion at : http://www.nabble.com/Dashed-path-in-inkscape-td22696787.html The extension is posted at : https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/374574 It is a slight modification of the file addnodes.py. Any feedback would be welcome. Any objections if I were to commit this in a few days?