Thanks Chris.

I do have the align and distribute panel, but I still don’t see how you can spread the object further apart or pull them together by maintaining equal distance between them. At least not very easily. But you might have to be patient with me, because again, I’m not very experienced in inkscape.

Jake

From: Chris Tooley [mailto:euxneks@...155...]
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 12:21 PM
To: Inkscape User Community
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] disappearing files

> It is really good as is, but one additional feature I can think of may be to spread out the elements to a specified width / height with equal distances between each other as an optional step after the alignment.

Hi Jake,

You can actually do this already in the "Align and Distribute pane".  The "Distribute" part will put either an equal distance between objects' center, between the objects, or between the objects' outer or inner edges. Select all the objects you want to be distributed and choose one of the options :) Attached is a screenshot from my inkscape installation.  If you don't have these in the Align and Distribute pane, perhaps your version of Inkscape is not current :)

In terms of the file not showing up, I'm afraid I've never encountered that problem so perhaps someone else in the mailing list has..?

-Chris