Thank you. So I must use the intersection and and use the "mask" with paste into place each time with all cropped object. Bummer.

I made a sample file. that you can see it's a kind of map. So clipping those objects does not really remove them and even exported to pdf with clip they stay there but hidden. no matter how large they are. So I could not make any crop to those at same time, perhaps im stupid and too new user of inks...

Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately i cannot publish the file/image. I decided to join the layer before cropping/cutting. But still don't get it that how can i crop (not clip or mask) if i have multiple elements / paths and circles etc. underneath the area i want to crop ? they are diff. color s...

Hello! I have an image with multiple layers. Now i would like to make parts of the image to new svg files by cropping/extracting rect. areas from it. But if i use the clip, each new file has 2 problems: - they contain everything from the main file (but hidden) - all the layers are joined into a sing...

Thanks! worked nicely!

No i've got another problem. How can i make forest-like map shapes. Free shaped areas that has curly edges ?
something like clouds but the edges have smaller roundings and more of them..

I've been using inkscape now for some time. And it's awesome.

Now i'd really need a option to import shapes from kml / google maps points / route file that are made with gps.
Not the map itself, just the route.

Is there any way to convert or import them ?