Thanks for clarifying, Moini! So there's no way to tell inkscape to always use the .svg path when exporting to .png? Bummer. My illustrations are usually based around 1 or 2 screenshots to which I add some highlights, notes and bullet points. I usually export "selection" because there's of...

Dear all, If I'm not mistaking, my previous Inkscape version used to suggest exporting .svg files as the (absolute) path of the .svg file with ".png" instead of ".svg". That is, C:\Users\ruben\Desktop\my-ugly-drawing.svg was -by default- exported as C:\Users\ruben\Desktop\my-ugly...

Dear all, My basic question is this: can I tell inkscape to always save/export files to my Windows desktop and never to any other directory unless I tell it to do so? I've been looking through Inkscape preferences but didn't see anything like that. Depending on a file's location, it seems Inkscape t...

Thanks a million to all who proposed solutions! It turns out to be utterly simple: the .svg files are just plain text XML files that can be opened with Notepad++!! And the source code is pretty readable too. Just replace all instances of font-family:Sans by font-family:Arial . Save, close and open w...

So Inkscape 0.48 had its own default fonts and Inkscape 0.91 uses Window's default fonts? A mismatch between those could cause the symptoms I described? In that case, setting my Window's default sans-serif font to Arial should resolve the problem altogether, right? I'll try and do just that. In case...

@Xav: thanks for contributing. However, I'm on Windows 8.1 and "Arial" is unambiguously present in Window's fonts folder. I can open and preview the font file so I really don't think that could be related to the problem in any way.

@Both: thanks a million for your suggestions. Of course I've Arial installed; how could I otherwise successfully change text back to Arial? @Brynn: it's only after opening files that I see that the fonts have changed. So I can't say whether they changed before or after opening them. @Moini: if you'd...

Thanks but that's not the case. Text that used to be Arial clearly isn't Arial anymore. The font type has changed. If I select the text and set it to Arial, I see the shapes of the letters change back to what they used to look like. Also, text that used to fit in boxes doesn't always fit anymore unt...

Dear all,

I've a huge bunch of files created in Inkscape 0.48. When I open them in 0.91, all Arial fonts are changed to Sans. Is there any way to prevent this from happening?

Thanks in advance!

Dear all, I drew an arrow and now I'd like to rotate it. So I 1) (single left) click it twice, 2) press the CTRL key on my keyboard 3) click and hold the "rotation arrow" 4) try and drag the arrow until it has rotated 180 degrees. However, as soon as I start dragging, I seem to "lose ...

@Lazur URH: I tried your suggestion and got a nice and sharp .png export! It seems that it solves the problem. Thx a lot! Hope it keeps going well from now on!

@Maestral: the one you posted looks fine! How did you do that?

The .png I exported doesn't look quite as good. The cirkled numbers are OK but the original screenshot is visibly blurred.

Thank you for the suggestion but I'm not sure.

The thing is that the initial screenshot -even after saving as .png file- is as sharp as a razor. However, embedding it in Inkscape, adding some bullet points and stuff and exporting it to .png is what seems to cause the aforementioned loss of quality.

Thank you for the suggestion. I always use Prnt Scrn too. However, I usually need to crop the "raw" screenshots. I learned that it's best not to crop/resize screenshots in Inkscape so I usually do that in Irfanview before copying to Inkscape. Like so, would you suggest I should 1) paste to...

Dear all, I've been using Inkscape for adding stuff to screenshots for a while. In order to have the .png exports nice and sharp: 1) I don't crop/resize the screenshots in Inkscape, 2) make sure the picture size doesn't have fractional pixels and 3) export at 90 DPI. Like so, I made a ton of nice il...

Breaking the path indeed solved the problem. Thx for the help, it's appreciated.

Dear all, A .png I exported from Inkscape looks slightly different from the image in Inkscape. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/116120595/export_problem.png Does anybody understand what I did wrong and how to solve this? I created many similar images without any problems. In case anybody is willi...

Thanks all for the suggestions! There's too little space to move the balloon to the right. I feel that the width of a single letter is about the right amount of horizontal space between the text and the balloon border. And yes, I know I should use GIMP or Photoshop or Paint.net for this kind of stuf...

Dear all, I imported this bitmap but I'd like to make the letters "Data" disappear because they're too close to my text balloon. I thought about copy-pasting a section of the blue gradient of the bitmap over it. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/116120595/inkscape_hide_letters.png I coul...

Of course, as simple as that! Well, thanks a lot for your help again, it's appreciated!

Dear all, My problem is basically this: I'd like to center text vertically within a surrounding rectangle. However, when I use the built-in align tool, the text box rather than the text itself gets centered. Please see here for a screen shot. The phenomenon makes perfect sense: the 'tail' of the y c...

Thanks a million to everyone helping out! I'm getting perfect screenshots from Inkscape now! The basic answer for me is: do the cropping before pasting into Inkscape (e.g. in Irfanview with shift + c). Don't edit the bitmap itself in Inkscape, just add guides and other stuff. Export drawing at 90 DP...

After some research, it seems that snagit is perhaps a better option here than Inkscape. Unfortunately, the editing doesn't go quite as smoothly as with Inkscape but the end result looks better. In a previous attempt, I tried to increase the image size before importing into Inkscape which seemed to ...

Dear all, I often use Inkscape to edit Screenshots. I capture them by pressing the PrntScrn button and use CTRL + V for pasting into Inkscape. After editing, I export to bitmap (.png format) and use on some website. The result is reasonable but I feel there should be substantial room for improvement...