With regard to "filled text" and based on my use of RDWorks (the software that generates the driver files for our laser cutter): Text is generally engraved onto the surface of a piece of material using a sequence of parallel very shallow cuts. These shallow cuts are created by running the ...

I have used Inkscape to generate dxf files for import into RDWorks, the software used to drive our Chinese laser cutter. I have not had a problem with the scale being lost. This may help, set File -> Document Properties -> Page (tab) - Display units = mm and then, File -> Save as - Save file type = ...

Issue now logged on GitLab: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/624

I found this bug report on Launchpad which is describing similar behaviour (in this case an offset generated from a path difference of intersecting ellipses): https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1751166 The bug report author notes, per druban's investigation and Xav's comments, that changing th...

Thanks for all your help Xav in finding a fix and good point about using the arrow keys for a slick zero distance move.

All this behaviour seems a little odd to me. I am no Inkscape expert: is this a bug and should it be reported?

Thank you for your explanation. Perhaps for similar reasons to path offset working "correctly" for a figure-of-eight, if you apply path reverse twice to my bottom right object the linked offset is still OK. While experimenting I also discovered that if you move any of the nodes in either o...

Thanks @Xav, your method fixes the problem! (I also like your Ctrl-A suggestion.) Interestingly applying path reverse to the bottom right object, as is, before creating a linked offset cures the problem... but surely it is a single closed path, so reversing it should make no difference to the linked...

I am having trouble getting path linked offset to produce the result I expect - not sure if I am doing something wrong. The following image illustrates the problem: https://udyhua.bl.files.1drv.com/y4mAye3P1b8TG9YdL7m3z8wHR0kHbmVemHDxYObsFUuossU3HYpHRJ3lYqfwP0_EmjvWMBtLE907RDClM8JS5qNRq3tHsW5dSBbWQR...