Your little tutorial helped a lot, tylerdurden, thank you very much! All the other input was also very helpful. Thank you, guys! I really learned something!

And why does Inkscape add nodes that are not only useless but also potentially problematic?

So how can I avoid adding "more useless nodes"? Is the only option to avoid merging shapes?

The circles are not above one another btw but they overlap with the curvy lines.

That's unusual ... :-/ Do you remember what you did? Perhaps union some circles? Or do an outset? Yeah, exactly. I have three of these circles and three of these curvy lines which I merged. During the merging process, Inkscape adds nodes. That seems to be the problem. But isn't it a usual and logic...

Moini wrote:You might want to look into creating circles with the circle tool, instead of whichever way you used.

I used the cirlce tool, that's the point. The additional nodes must have been added automatically during later steps of the process.

tylerdurden wrote:Please share an example file, or a screenshot of the object's nodes.

Also, please let us know what the setting is in the preferences: Input/Output>SVG Output>Numeric Precision.

Input/Output>SVG Output>Numeric Precision: 8

The way I see it the only solution is to remove the spikes manually after "stroke to path" which is not very professional. :-/

That's crazy, even if there's no spike left there's one popping up again together with the conversion from stroke to path. That's obviously a bug!

Was this a trace of a bitmap? It might help to simplify the paths (or parts of them) before stroke to path. Feel free to attach/share an example file. Thanks for your input. No, it's not a trace of a bitmap. It was made with Inkscape. Simplifying the path does only lead to crazy deformations of the...

Hi. Captain obvious here, the miter joins are rendered at the joins. Meaning, where you see those spikes rendered, you have an unnecessary "corner" in the path with more than one node. There are probably at least 3 nodes in the area you circled -two too many. With the node editor I'd sele...

Hello there, did anyone else ever experience the problem of little spikes appearing out of nowhere when you choose "Miter join" in the stroke style menu (see pictures, first one is "Round join", second one is " Miter join", the spike is circled)? So far I always removed...

Problem solved by installing a different driver. Thanks!

Hello there, even though this isn't a real Inkscape topic I guess that there are some people here using a Huion tablet under Linux. So hopefully someone here has a solution to my problem. :-) I got my new Huion DWH69 yesterday and at least the basic functions worked absolutely fine yesterday on my U...

Moini wrote:Are you using the snap version of Inkscape?
The snap package format can't access all fonts on a user's computer.

As a fix, I'd suggest uninstalling the snap, then installing Inkscape from the ppa.

Tried it, now it works. Thanks!

Hello guys,

after installing the newest version of Inkscape I discovered that only a few of the fonts that are installed on my Ubuntu 16.04 system are available in Inkscape. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? Thanks a lot!

Manuel