Sorry to not reply for a while, I am (and have been) working on some other things. Thank you very much for your extensive post, Ailurus. I have read through your post, and there are certainly some promising things that I can look at. I will post back the results when I make them. I'm going on a 4 we...

This topic is semi-related to my other topic about converting lines , but this time it's about text. I've got some text that is actually a gigantic amount of paths. I would like to convert that into real text, to make it editable and maintainable. It should also decrease the filesize dramatically. S...

The "Special Image Tracing!" topic looks promising. If I understand correctly, it refers to exactly what I need.

I don't mind doing a little handwork prior to the step, and a little straighting afterwards. If there's something that performs the bulk of the works, that would be most helpful.

Attached an example of the line-shaped objects (roads) that I would like to convert into actual lines. I'm sorry it took a while to produce this example.

It's a little hard to explain, possibily in part because I'm not quite familiar with Inkscape's terminology. I guess you could imagine a shape's stroke being converted to a shape, and now I need to convert it back. So to speak. The roads in my case are not rectangles, unfortunately. They are contuou...

So I've been using Inkscape for a while now, and I mainly use it to clean up some images. Currently, I am in the process of cleaning up a tourist map, which is fun cause you can see it getting cleaner, so to speak :) Anyway, here's the thing. There's a bunch of line-shaped objects (roads) that I wan...