Yes, the zoom relationship is correct. Inkscape takes its 'photo' at the zoom level you use when you use the bucket tool. You can use that to your advantage, to get more precise filling ;-) But, honestly, to me, the bucket tool is mostly a raster graphics concept transplanted into the vector graphi...

I've discovered a few things about gradients and the bucket tool: - Check the Edit->Preferences->Paint Bucket. If it's set to "Last Style Used" it seems to give odd results, such as a stroke with an weird width (0.848 last time might be based on the zoom level), and doesn't retain to use a...

The bucket fill tool works with a 'photo' of the image. It does not take the stroke width per se into account, only the area that has the same color. There are a couple of settings for the tool in its tool control bar at the top, that are intended to help with the problem. But the recommended way w...

NoeyLab wrote:I tried to clear them by selecting all objects and setting the fill to none.

That's what I initially tried to do but it didn't delete the fill object or the fill's stroke path, only the gradient fill was removed.

Also, welcome to the forum! I joined yesterday.

I think the bucket fill uses the stroke to create a path, then fills in the remainder with a gradient. Once I reduce the stroke width, the bucket fill doesn't extend all the way to fill the area. Perhaps if I already had the stroke set to 0 width it would work properly, but to draw the rectangles I ...

Thank you for your help, Lazur.

Here is a simple example. I took 2 rectangles, overlapped them, then bucket filled the overlap. With the stroke set to 0 width, there is a noticeable gap between the gradient and the line. What is going on there?

I've drawn a bunch of overlapping paths with the Bezier tool that now look somewhat like Celtic knotwork. So there are ribbons that go under and over each other. I want to add gradients it. The Fill tool creates objects with both a stroke and a fill, yes? And should the stroke width be 1? I wish the...

Thank you Lazur, It was a lot of questions. I think I better understand today what is going wrong, although I'm still not sure about how to approach what I what to do. I'm drawing the shapes, then going back and filling with the Fill tool. The fill tool creates a fill object with a stroke and a fill...

I'm an inkscape newbie. I have a bit of a crest design, with lots of different fillable areas, and I have been experimenting with different gradients in different sections to see what looks best. My lack of inkscape knowledge is frustrating me. I'd be interested in any in-depth help for gradients, s...