But drawing a circle creates diferent nodes than the ones in the video & there is a yin & yang thing going on when I convert object to path.

Well, stealing brynn's right to answer this :) I would say that the tweak tool is what you are looking for. The hand pointing downwards kind of icon, the third from the top on the tool bar (hotkey: Shift-F2). There are several setting for this tool (displayed on the tool bar on top), you will need ...

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samigina wrote:@Springles - just wondering, do other Inkscape extensions (from the menu 'Extensions') work as expected or fail with the same or a similar error message (about python.exe having stopped working)?

They work as expected.

Installed the uniconverter 1.1.5 msi, Inkscape still crashes. HELP !

Please see this video from start to end, it explains everything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmh8F6FsRUM

In Inkscape 0.48 you can open it by manually selecting the file format "Adobe Illustrator 8.0 and below" in the 'File > Open…' dialog. This requires to have UniConvertor 1.1.5 installed (which is bundled with Inkscape on Windows). HELP ! http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/3575/crasht.png ht...

Hi there how can I open this file in Inkscape ?

How can I deform a shape like how I can in Adobe Flash ? F5 -> Draw circle, Shift + Ctrl + C (Object to path), but when I press F2 to deform, the tangents & point dont work like in Adobe Flash.