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30 Apr
2008
30 Apr
'08
4:05 p.m.
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 03:03 -0700, Alvin Penner wrote:
what is the significance of the 'inkscape:original-d' attribute, I mean what action causes it to be present? I'm finding that when it is present, then it is no longer possible to edit the d attribute as one normally would in the XML editor, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/223986 . Is it possible to remove the 'inkscape:original-d' attribute, once it is present?
This attribute means that the path is being effected by a live path effect. The original-d is the path as drawn in the node editor, and then the d is the path after it's gone through the live path effect.
To remove the live path effect you can go to Path->Object to Path and that will turn it into a normal path.
--Ted