FILL TOOL: Regression - will not fill "Area is not bounded, cannot fill."

[Troy James Sobotka]

Summary: Using the "Fill Tool" results in the same error repeatedly, despite a fillable area. "Area is not bounded, cannot fill." This is a regression and was happening intermittently over the past couple of weeks. The tool will not fill at all now.

Architecture: Linux amd64 (Ubuntu 8.04)

Version: Inkscape 0.46+devel, built May 14 2008

[esjay (onlyone-einhander)]

Hi,

I can confirm this problem on Ubuntu 8.04 i386 32bit,
inkscape 0.46+devel, built Jun 5 2008 (subversion).

I tried to reproduce this on several occasions and understand some rules of it.

If the file has only one layer, you can use bucket fill successfully.
If the file has multiple layers and you click the upper one, you can use bucket fill successfully.

On the other hand, if the file has multiple layers and you click the lower one, you can never use bucket fill. Inkscape says "Area is not bounded. cannnot fill the object."
And once this occured, it suddenly became impossible to use bucket fill absolutely in any case. Even if the layer is deleted, the bug won't cease.

I tried reinstalling and deleting preferences.xml, neither has any effect.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

I can't reproduce it on Ubuntu 9.04, Inkscape rev. 22135.
Could you please confirm you still have this bug with recent dev. versions?
Thanks!

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

I'm also unable to reproduce this bug. As we haven't heard any news about this for a while, I'll close the report. If anyone can reproduce this problem with the latest version of Inkscape, please feel free to reopen the report.

[John Prescott (johnandrewprescott)]

I just download IS 0.48 with having it open for more than a minute I received the message:

"Area is not bounded, cannot fill."

Any idea how to fix this?

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

@John - Could you please attach your SVG file so that we can try to reproduce this issue?

[corrado (gioiacorrado)]

I have same bug!
I use ubuntu 10.10
inkscape 0.48

[Cory Albrecht (bytor)]

I have this problem now, with Inkscape 0.91 on Ubuntu 16.04. I need to have a high zoom level or Inkscape will not correctly fill right up to the lines already drawn. This happens when the fill would go out more than one side of the viewport. Why can Inkscape not use that viewport edge the same way it does a line or another object?

[Jef Lemaire (jeflemaire)]

I'm surprised there aren't more comments about this. With Inkscape 0.92pre3 r15240 I'm affected by this too and it's been at least a few months since the Fill tool hasn't been working properly (or at all). I can sometimes make it fill the viewport by zooming in but that's not what I want. I want the tool to fill bounded shapes, which it absolutely no longed does.

[Logics (karim-hosein)]

Also I. Inkscape 0.91 r13725 on Ubuntu Gnome 16.10

Entire area is in the viewport, still gives, "Area is not bounded, cannot fill." error. If however put the paint bucket tool on the outline of an object, it fills the outline. (Eg., a 12 pixel wide outline becomes about a 10 pixel fill with about a 1 pixel border on each side).

This is NOT the problem with bug #1506715 although I discovered that I also have that problem.

This is simply a properly bounded area between two objects (or even one) which will not fill with the bucket tool.

One forum suggested to ensure that the objects all have a defined fill and stroke then the tool will work. That solution did not work for me. Other forums suggest using the fill/stroke dialog which is not a solution in my case since I am filling the space between different objects, for the most part, or multi part objects (eg., concentric circles) where I do not want everything filled.

A year ago, I used the fill tool on this same SVG (basically, intersecting strokes exported from Blender) and filled the outlines quite nicely. This year, I made some minor tweaks in Blender to the strokes but Inkscape refuses to fill any of them. But, as stated, if I select an actual stroke, the stroke itself gets filled.

[Bobby John (almithra)]

for me, it worked when I used the combine option. Try for yours too.

regards.