Here are the two files in question: SVG http://www.clania.net/phoenix/game%20of%20thrones%20world%20map%20with%20notes.svg GIF http://www.clania.net/phoenix/game%20of%20thrones%20westeros.gif The following actions crash Inkscape for me: ⋅ With the SVG open already... ⋅ Trying to ...

Good find.

Ungrouping each bad image until the status bar says "image" instead of "group of 1 object" seems to fix everything.

What are these groups, anyway? What is in them? How is a "group of 1 object" a group?

I uninstalled my 64-bit version and installed the 32-bit version of Inkscape, and the resulting PDF not only has the black box problem, but is now missing a bunch of the raster images as well.

Good advice. 1) I created a bug report here. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1571176 2) This zip contains files that clearly illustrate the error. http://www.clania.net/phoenix/inkscape_bug.zip Steps To Reproduce 1) Open attached .svg file, which contains a raster image with transparent pix...

Hey there, Thanks for the detailed replies! I updated the screenshot in my original post so that everything is clearer. I think that the MS PP Word Art got changed to raster with transparency when I exported it. So it is no longer vector. Which is fine. I have 4 or 5 images in my document like this....

These are screenshots. The text I selected for the screenshot started its life as Microsoft PowerPoint Word Art, then was exported to PDF, then was opened in Inkscape and saved as SVG. File -> Export PNG Image worked. Thanks for the tip. The PNG I screenshotted above was from File -> Save As Copy ->...

Hello all, http://www.clania.net/phoenix/inkscape_transparency_problem.png I think this is a bug in Inkscape. When I try to save my vector images as PDF or PNG, transparent areas are rendered as partially opaque (PNG) or completely opaque (PDF). I tried installing the development version of Inkscape...

Worked like a charm! I knew about the join node button, but not about the delete segment button.

Thank you.

2016-02-03_183411.jpg Hello all, I traced a couple of incomplete paths and then tried to use combine and union to join them into one object. It didn't work too well. I then tried to use "Join selected notes" and "Join selected endnodes with a new segment" and was able to clean i...