I've imported a bitmap of a logo from one inkscape (svg) file to another. I'm working on incorporating this logo into a business card. I imported the whole logo but, only needing part of it, I cropped the other part out. So I have the part I want to use, only now I can't seem to click and drag the object anymore in order to move it. It's difficult to even click on it too - I have to drag an area around the object in order to select it. What happened?

The_0bserver wrote:I've imported a bitmap of a logo from one inkscape (svg) file to another. I'm working on incorporating this logo into a business card. I imported the whole logo but, only needing part of it, I cropped the other part out. So I have the part I want to use, only now I can't seem to click and drag the object anymore in order to move it. It's difficult to even click on it too - I have to drag an area around the object in order to select it. What happened?

There is no "crop" tool- with that name - in inkscape.
I bet that you are cliped your bitmap. Clip it's not the same than croping your image.
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL ... s-Patterns

Please be aware that inkscape is a vector drawing program... For bitmap work it's better to use raster image programs like GIMp, or Photoshop.

There are more posibilities to provide a workaround, if you provide your drawing or a sample drawing... However if you read carefully the links provided, I think you can solve your problem by yourself easily

Greetings

FWIW, there is a new bitmap crop extension.

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php ... s/0.91#New

I haven't used it yet.

Hi.

Off topic?

tylerdurden wrote:FWIW, there is a new bitmap crop extension.
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php ... s/0.91#New
I haven't used it yet.

My understanding of how this extension is supposed to work: if you have one horizontal and one vertical guide on your page the extension will export four png bitmaps
of your page.

I tried to get this to work on a small page but killed Inkscape after a while as it never seemed to finish.
The extension started other instances of Inkscape from the command line as expected but they never finished.
I am using 0.91 on Win8.1.

The_0bserver wrote:I've imported a bitmap of a logo from one inkscape (svg) file to another. I'm working on incorporating this logo into a business card. I imported the whole logo but, only needing part of it, I cropped the other part out. So I have the part I want to use, only now I can't seem to click and drag the object anymore in order to move it. It's difficult to even click on it too - I have to drag an area around the object in order to select it. What happened?

Any chances the bitmap is transparent where you want to select it?


Try duplicating the clipping object first, add a white fill to it, move to the bottom,
group it with the raster image, and clip the group.
Assuming you work with the default white/transparent background, it should work.

Switched to photoshop because it's free through my school. Thx for all the help though guys!