I have a bunch of random lines that I generated with a program I wrote, as an svg.
I also have some text that I I wrote in inkscape.

I've imported the lines and I have the text in inkscape and I'd like to clip the random lines so that they only appear in inside the text... which I can do, but then I cannot seem to convert the result of that to paths.. as I want to plot this with a pen plotter.

basically, how do I take open paths (lines), and a closed path, and take the intersection of those as paths?

I've attached a rendering of what I can do with clipping (filled text over the random lines).. though for some reason the rendering gets some blurring on the borders of the text.

Thanks,
Alex

You want to use Boolean operations (and possibly, path editing). Learn about them here: https://inkscape-manuals.readthedocs.io ... tions.html and here: https://vektorrascheln.de/posts/2015/De ... operations for example (many more resources are available on the web).