On 2/7/07, Jeffrey Brent McBeth <mcbeth@...1493...> wrote:

I have an SVG from Wikipedia that I am trying to simplify down to a single path. Everything has gone well until I get to the last step. The symbol is the ancient symbol of Maurya, and on the base of the statue there are some cutouts in the shape of a horse and elephant. The artist decided to model this by drawing a horse and elephant in a light color rather than cutting a hole in the base. No problem, I thought. Just select the two paths and take the difference. Unfortunately, the cutouts are relying on a black stroke of 3. So when I take the difference, it doesn't look much like what it did before. If someone can help me figure out how to take a difference so I end up with a single path that looks as good as it currently does (I'm pretty sure it was autotraced from somewhere), it would be appreciated.

http://broggs.org/~mcbeth/MauryaPath.svg

- select the horse&elephant path

- duplicate

- path > stroke to path

- drag-select both horse&elephant paths

- difference

- remove stroke

- select the result and the main path

- difference

done.