A couple of months ago I used some filters on a text (the word nature). Now I need to make a new vector design in which I need to reproduce this with other text. Problem is that I've forgotten which filter(s) I did use on this..

Does anyone have a clue?

This is my design:

I'm looking for a way to achieve the following... Let's say I've got the svg file included with my posting. Now I want to copy/paste everything within the purple rectangle, but want to exclude everything outside the same rectangle into a new inkscape document. Is this possible? If so can anyone tell...