No easy way of isolating multiple overlapping objects
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Inkscape |
New
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After importing an emf or pdf file (at least these produced by MS tools), the drawing often contains a large number of overlapping (that is, placed on top of another) paths. Usually there are two to four objects objects describing every single element of the drawing.
Although there are methods for cycling the selection in z-order, it is very time consuming to clean up such drawings. Some semi-automatic way of removing "duplicates" would be very useful.
This might be a similar issue to the one discussed in Bug #521988. However, the proposed removeredundant.py extension does not work on the drawings imported from emf files (perhaps these overlapping objects are not *exact* duplicates?).
Also, because this issue significantly hinders porting drawings from MS tools to Inkscape, I'd argue that such function/extension should be shipped in a default installation of Inkscape.
Changed in inkscape: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
tags: |
added: ui removed: boolops |
Tagging as 'boolops' for now - a command to open/remove redundant (aligned) edges of overlapping/ coinciding objects (shapes, paths) would likely be added to the path operations listed in the 'Path' menu (a result could be a combined path reduced to non-redundant segments only).