Re: [Inkscape-user] Simulating rubber stamp impressions (postmarks, etc.)

Tristan Miller wrote:

Does Inkscape (or SVG) not allow one to define a named object once and then reuse it multiple times? It looks as if every time I pasted the object, Inkscape wrote a new copy of it to the file.

Use clones (Edit > Clone > Create Clone or Alt + D) for this.