Hi,

I'm following this tutorial to make a kind of rubber stamp, but when I try to make the union of the paths, the paths inside of the outter one dissapear..

I think maybe the tutorial was made using a prevoius version of IS. Im on 0.48.

What do you guess to make that kind of rubber stamp?

Javi

You should convert the strokes to paths before the union, maybe that was missed.

Hi Javi, glad to see you followed my suggestion to post your questions here.

Lazur's reply is a shorter version of what I wrote to you on the Inkscape mailing list - for the benefit of anyone else that finds this thread in future, here's a copy of my original reply:


"Union" joins multiple paths into a single object. If one path is completely enclosed by another it will be absorbed into the larger path. In your case the outer circle encloses everything else, so doing a union results in just that outer path remaining.

What you probably want to do is to select both circles and use Path > Stroke to Path. This will turn each of them into a "doughnut" (or "donut" if you prefer the American spelling) with a very large hole in the center. Use the node editing tool before and after the conversion to see the difference. Now you should be able to union all the objects and give them a single fill with no stroke, rather than the mixture of filled and stroked objects that you have currently.

Mark

Thanks, it's true!