Hi,
I’m a new user migrating over from Illustrator. I’m running a Mac (Catalina 10.15.3) and Inkscape 1.0beta2 (2b71d25, 2019-12-03). I have deleted the preferences file prior to this test.
From a new, empty document, I created a couple of shapes.
Following an online tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7TU7N3sn0) my installation does not cut paths using the eraser and the ‘cut out from paths and shapes’ setting. I get a [red] line (path) as in the tutorial, but it remains after I lift the mouse and the underlying shape remains intact. I can delete the red line in the usual way.
On a second shape, I convert to a path, highlight a pair of nodes and click ‘cut’. The highlight on the nodes disappears, but the path remains intact.
Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
Cheers, Dave
Hi Dave,
I've found that the eraser only works on selected items - not sure whether that's a bug or a feature...
Have you tried it like that, too?
Maren
Am 11.03.20 um 11:22 schrieb Dave Roberts:
Hi,
I’m a new user migrating over from Illustrator. I’m running a Mac (Catalina 10.15.3) and Inkscape 1.0beta2 (2b71d25, 2019-12-03). I have deleted the preferences file prior to this test.
From a new, empty document, I created a couple of shapes.
Following an online tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7TU7N3sn0) my installation does not cut paths using the eraser and the ‘cut out from paths and shapes’ setting. I get a [red] line (path) as in the tutorial, but it remains after I lift the mouse and the underlying shape remains intact. I can delete the red line in the usual way.
On a second shape, I convert to a path, highlight a pair of nodes and click ‘cut’. The highlight on the nodes disappears, but the path remains intact.
Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ Inkscape Users mailing list -- inkscape-user@lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-user-leave@lists.inkscape.org
Hi Maren,
yes, I tried selected and not.
I suspect that this might be an issue with Catalina, which, incidentally, is why I am migrating from Illustrator. I’m running the beta version of Inkscape too, so there may be bugs there.
I suspect the heart of the problem is the failure of the ‘cut’ command, which must be part of the erase routine.
Cheers, Dave
On 11 Mar 2020, at 12:21, Maren Hachmann maren@goos-habermann.de wrote:
Hi Dave,
I've found that the eraser only works on selected items - not sure whether that's a bug or a feature...
Have you tried it like that, too?
Maren
Am 11.03.20 um 11:22 schrieb Dave Roberts:
Hi,
I’m a new user migrating over from Illustrator. I’m running a Mac (Catalina 10.15.3) and Inkscape 1.0beta2 (2b71d25, 2019-12-03). I have deleted the preferences file prior to this test.
From a new, empty document, I created a couple of shapes.
Following an online tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7TU7N3sn0) my installation does not cut paths using the eraser and the ‘cut out from paths and shapes’ setting. I get a [red] line (path) as in the tutorial, but it remains after I lift the mouse and the underlying shape remains intact. I can delete the red line in the usual way.
On a second shape, I convert to a path, highlight a pair of nodes and click ‘cut’. The highlight on the nodes disappears, but the path remains intact.
Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ Inkscape Users mailing list -- inkscape-user@lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-user-leave@lists.inkscape.org
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Hi Dave,
then another possible cause might be that the objects are not paths directly - which type of objects do you have selected?
(but yes, there are known issues with the tool, that happen intermittently. Let's try to rule out known usability issues first, though.)
I don't know for sure, but I also believe that it's the Boolean difference operation that happens when you use the eraser in the 'cut from objects' mode.
Maren
Am 11.03.20 um 14:21 schrieb Dave Roberts:
Hi Maren,
yes, I tried selected and not.
I suspect that this might be an issue with Catalina, which, incidentally, is why I am migrating from Illustrator. I’m running the beta version of Inkscape too, so there may be bugs there.
I suspect the heart of the problem is the failure of the ‘cut’ command, which must be part of the erase routine.
Cheers, Dave
On 11 Mar 2020, at 12:21, Maren Hachmann maren@goos-habermann.de wrote:
Hi Dave,
I've found that the eraser only works on selected items - not sure whether that's a bug or a feature...
Have you tried it like that, too?
Maren
Am 11.03.20 um 11:22 schrieb Dave Roberts:
Hi,
I’m a new user migrating over from Illustrator. I’m running a Mac (Catalina 10.15.3) and Inkscape 1.0beta2 (2b71d25, 2019-12-03). I have deleted the preferences file prior to this test.
From a new, empty document, I created a couple of shapes.
Following an online tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7TU7N3sn0) my installation does not cut paths using the eraser and the ‘cut out from paths and shapes’ setting. I get a [red] line (path) as in the tutorial, but it remains after I lift the mouse and the underlying shape remains intact. I can delete the red line in the usual way.
On a second shape, I convert to a path, highlight a pair of nodes and click ‘cut’. The highlight on the nodes disappears, but the path remains intact.
Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ Inkscape Users mailing list -- inkscape-user@lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-user-leave@lists.inkscape.org
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Hi Maren,
I’ve attached a sheet that I created as originally described. The red lines are created by the erase tool.
The circle is an object, the square is an object that has been converted to a path. The behaviour is the same whether the entity is selected or not. The path entity seems to lose its selected status when I switch to the erase tool.
Cheers, Dave
On 11 Mar 2020, at 17:35, Maren Hachmann maren@goos-habermann.de wrote:
Hi Dave,
then another possible cause might be that the objects are not paths directly - which type of objects do you have selected?
(but yes, there are known issues with the tool, that happen intermittently. Let's try to rule out known usability issues first, though.)
I don't know for sure, but I also believe that it's the Boolean difference operation that happens when you use the eraser in the 'cut from objects' mode.
Maren
Am 11.03.20 um 14:21 schrieb Dave Roberts:
Hi Maren,
yes, I tried selected and not.
I suspect that this might be an issue with Catalina, which, incidentally, is why I am migrating from Illustrator. I’m running the beta version of Inkscape too, so there may be bugs there.
I suspect the heart of the problem is the failure of the ‘cut’ command, which must be part of the erase routine.
Cheers, Dave
On 11 Mar 2020, at 12:21, Maren Hachmann maren@goos-habermann.de wrote:
Hi Dave,
I've found that the eraser only works on selected items - not sure whether that's a bug or a feature...
Have you tried it like that, too?
Maren
Am 11.03.20 um 11:22 schrieb Dave Roberts:
Hi,
I’m a new user migrating over from Illustrator. I’m running a Mac (Catalina 10.15.3) and Inkscape 1.0beta2 (2b71d25, 2019-12-03). I have deleted the preferences file prior to this test.
From a new, empty document, I created a couple of shapes.
Following an online tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7TU7N3sn0) my installation does not cut paths using the eraser and the ‘cut out from paths and shapes’ setting. I get a [red] line (path) as in the tutorial, but it remains after I lift the mouse and the underlying shape remains intact. I can delete the red line in the usual way.
On a second shape, I convert to a path, highlight a pair of nodes and click ‘cut’. The highlight on the nodes disappears, but the path remains intact.
Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ Inkscape Users mailing list -- inkscape-user@lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-user-leave@lists.inkscape.org
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Hi Dave,
I've seen this happen a lot of times in my own Inkscape, and many people have complained about it.
In my Inkscape 1.0.x, I cannot reproduce the issue currently with your file, though.
There is a similar bug report here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1425794 that assumes it could be related to the viewbox and any transforms.
I was not able to find another open bug report, especially none on GitLab.
There is one closed report (https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1539778) on launchpad that might be what you are seeing - but it's supposed to be fixed in your Inkscape version (1.0beta2 (2b71d25, 2019-12-03)).
As it works for me, but does not work for you, maybe a difference in our preferences files could play a role, too.
Does it always *not* work for you, or are there cases when it does work?
Maren
Am 13.03.20 um 11:31 schrieb Dave Roberts:
Hi Maren,
I’ve attached a sheet that I created as originally described. The red lines are created by the erase tool.
The circle is an object, the square is an object that has been converted to a path. The behaviour is the same whether the entity is selected or not. The path entity seems to lose its selected status when I switch to the erase tool.
Cheers, Dave
On 11 Mar 2020, at 17:35, Maren Hachmann maren@goos-habermann.de wrote:
Hi Dave,
then another possible cause might be that the objects are not paths directly - which type of objects do you have selected?
(but yes, there are known issues with the tool, that happen intermittently. Let's try to rule out known usability issues first, though.)
I don't know for sure, but I also believe that it's the Boolean difference operation that happens when you use the eraser in the 'cut from objects' mode.
Maren
Am 11.03.20 um 14:21 schrieb Dave Roberts:
Hi Maren,
yes, I tried selected and not.
I suspect that this might be an issue with Catalina, which, incidentally, is why I am migrating from Illustrator. I’m running the beta version of Inkscape too, so there may be bugs there.
I suspect the heart of the problem is the failure of the ‘cut’ command, which must be part of the erase routine.
Cheers, Dave
On 11 Mar 2020, at 12:21, Maren Hachmann maren@goos-habermann.de wrote:
Hi Dave,
I've found that the eraser only works on selected items - not sure whether that's a bug or a feature...
Have you tried it like that, too?
Maren
Am 11.03.20 um 11:22 schrieb Dave Roberts:
Hi,
I’m a new user migrating over from Illustrator. I’m running a Mac (Catalina 10.15.3) and Inkscape 1.0beta2 (2b71d25, 2019-12-03). I have deleted the preferences file prior to this test.
From a new, empty document, I created a couple of shapes.
Following an online tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7TU7N3sn0) my installation does not cut paths using the eraser and the ‘cut out from paths and shapes’ setting. I get a [red] line (path) as in the tutorial, but it remains after I lift the mouse and the underlying shape remains intact. I can delete the red line in the usual way.
On a second shape, I convert to a path, highlight a pair of nodes and click ‘cut’. The highlight on the nodes disappears, but the path remains intact.
Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ Inkscape Users mailing list -- inkscape-user@lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-user-leave@lists.inkscape.org
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