Thanks for the info! I will try that.

--- On Sun, 7/26/09, Donn <donn.ingle@...155...> wrote:

From: Donn <donn.ingle@...155...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] "phantom" objects in .svg files To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Sunday, July 26, 2009, 3:32 AM On Saturday, 25 July 2009 23:16:15 Elwin Estle wrote:

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I am just curious:  When you delete an object

from your .svg file, does it

...

actually get rid of the associated XML, or just not

display it any more? There is a button to open the XML editor/viewer. Edit->XML Editor (A little window icon with <> in it) It's worth watching what happens there as you select and edit (and delete) in the design window. You can also edit the SVG from that window.

...

...and I am just wondering where these objects come

from... You can 'vacuum' the defs File->Vacuum Defs, this cleans a lot of gumpf (a technical term that I cannot explain without killing you first ;) ) out of the XML file.

hth, \d -- home: http://otherwise.relics.co.za/ 2D vector animation : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/things/ Font manager : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython/

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