loonquawl, path-combine wasn't working, but I figured out I had to do exclusion on the two outer paths, and difference on the two inner paths. And thanks for the tip on the unlinking the clones, it works perfectly. And to micro, thanks so much for all your help. I've finally gotten it to where I nee...

Thanks for the diagram. I tried doing that earlier, but I just figured out, that what I was doing wrong was that I had to apply the difference with each path individually, and no en masse or in a group. Is that worth submitting as a feature request, do you think? I have a problem though, I am able t...

But doesn't difference only work when it is used between two SVG images. I'm not able to get it to work between an SVG image/series of grouped SVG images and a png image.

I need to do the opposite. I need to cut out an interior, not an exterior.

This is an SVG image of rectangles. http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4603/g2447xy2.th.png http://img525.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif This is the PNG background for my image, a wallpaper/poster. [img=http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/6457/legionwallpaperbackgrouqu5.th.png] [img=http://img257.ima...

Ok, didn't see an answer, and I'm not sure Inkscape is the right too for it, but the problem is that I have an image, basically a series of boxes and some custom made text. I want to important and image, and crop the image so that the boxes and the text are transparent, preferably with the stroke st...