Thanks! That solved it!

-Grey

Hello,

I'm using Inkscape on OS X 10.5 in X11 and I've just discovered that copying part of one SVG file and pasting into another seems to be impossible. It doesn't work using either the keyboard shortcuts nor the menus. Is there any fix for this?

Thanks for any help,

-Grey

I'd convert the flag to a pattern and put it in the fill of the rect.

Could you give me a bit more detail on that? I'm not quite sure what you mean.

-Grey

PS: This is a flag where the first problem occurs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Delaware.svg

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