Paint bucket tool not working: "Area not bounded"

[Xorlium]

Starting on inkscape 0.9.2, tried both using ubuntu official PPA (https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable) and default ubuntu one, inkscape paint bucket tool does not work properly.

For example, I make two circles with stroke and no fill intersect (like a Venn diagram) and then try to fill the intersection from various zoom levels. It invariably says "Area is not bounded: cannot fill"

[Logics (karim-hosein)]

0.9.1 Also 16.10

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

could you attach the svg file which you are trying to fill?

[runnicdesign (runnicdesign)]

Yes, this bug affects Inkscape 0.92, it makes the bucket tool partially unusable.

[Brynn (brynn4inks-deactivatedaccount)]

I cannot reproduce on Windows 7. But there's another report of this with 0.92.1 on Debian here:

https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=864.0

I'll try to get a test file....although 2 intersecting circles should obviously be fillable...

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

confirmed on Windows 10, Inkscape 0.92.2 (5c3e80d, 2017-08-06)

I am not able to reproduce the painting of an intersection as illustrated in the manual at:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Bucket-SimpleUse.html

I am sometimes able to paint a single object with a single color. In order to paint a single object it is necessary to make sure that the "Fill By" box at the top left says "Visible Colors" and that the Fill color box at the top right contains a color, not "None".

[larienna (ericp-ariel)]

I have the same issue on Linux v.92.1. It's very easy to reproduce.

- Draw an unfilled rectangle
- select the bucket fill and change the color
- click inside the unfilled rectangle

You'll get the area no bounded message.

It will only work if the shape is already filled, in that case it will create a new shape with the new color.

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

Can't reproduce (LM 18.2, Inkscape 0.92.2) - tried with overlapping stroked circles, with a stroked rectangle,... Perhaps a short gif animation by someone where it doesn't work could help?

[larienna (ericp-ariel)]

I tried to make a screen shot since I cannot make animated gifs. Here are the steps I made:

- Created the left rectangle.
- Duplicated the left rectangle to the right
- Removed the right rectangle's fill
- If I click in the left rectangle with the paint bucket, I get the middle rectangle (after translating the rectangle).
- If I click on the right rectangle, I get the error message shown at the bottom of the screen.

It was done with Inkscape 0.92.1 r15371 with linux Debian 9

[Ricardo Biloti (biloti)]

This bug, as reported above, affects me and dozens of users on the lab I mantain. The lab runs with Debian 9 and with Inkscape installed from official deb rep, 0.92.1 r15371.

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

have you tried the suggestion in comment 5?

[Ricardo Biloti (biloti)]

Alvin, yes, I have. It didn't work out though.