@Xav : oh waw... Indeed! Again my apologies - when you mentioned the filters, I thought you were referring to the Filters option in the menu bar and if I used them on these objects. But yeah, done that and removed the filter(s) and it was resolved (it didn't delete the blend mode though). Will test ...

@Xav : no filters whatsoever... I'll try to attach the SVG... Hope this works : http://www.xthrees.com/inkscape-bug_perhaps.svg @Moini : thanks a lot for your time - yes, forgot to mention that :-( Both Multiply as Screen have this as a result. A bug? Or a feature? Am I misunderstanding the Blend Mo...

hi Moini, Thanks a lot for the reply - well, more information : http://i.imgur.com/OKuJy7C.png I've marked the 'odd' behaviour with those black lines : initially, there were 3 items on those 2 layers : 2 circles and 1 textobject. All of them with 50% alpha... So along those lines, there's that 'rect...

hi there, This might be a basic question but as I've just started out with Inkscape... When I place a text object on a layer (the "T" is on layer2 eg) and give it a transparency of about 50% (the RGBA is c300006f), there's an area that seems to 'overlap'. Like the area that "contains&...