A friend of mine has given me an Illustrator file (and a pdf of the same art). Each file contains a handful of logos. I've imported these files into Inkscape, hoping to break them up into separate logo files of the sizes that I need.

The problem is that Inkscape will only allow me to select the entire image. When I draw a rectangle around a specific image, it does nothing... or occasionally selects a single letter in the logo but NEVER the entire thing.
I've tried Object>Clip to crop pieces off but that doesn't do a thing. Also, it's all one layer so I don't think I'm working in the wrong layer.

I can select pieces of the logos, one at a time or hold down SHIFT and slowly select multiple pieces by clicking one at a time but these logos are fairly complex and if I go piece-by-piece, it sort of dismantles the whole designer's intentions as far as letter spacing, etc.

I feel like there's got to be a simple solution to be able to draw a rectangle around what I want to CUT/COPY and have everything selected but nothing is working at this point.
Any ideas?

Thanks everyone.

Hi.

Check the status field at the bottom of your Inkscape window to see what is selected.

Press F1 to get into object selection mode.

Try select all CTRL-A and then do ungroup SHIFT-CTRL-G repeatedly until all the groups is broken up.

RGDS
Ragnar

I could've sworn I tried that

Thanks so much. That worked fantastically.

Maybe is this the problem?
The problem will be that the drawing is saved in Illustrator-layers,
inkscape does not recognize the Layers, everything is selected as a group.
You first need ungroup all of them and then edit all parts, also with PDF