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ISO- Inkscape tut on breaking apart a grouped svg file

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:34 pm
by sfandm
I have tried this several ways and I can't do it. These are a group svg file, it says it at the bottom in Ink. The message at the bottom says:

Group of 4 objects in Layer 1.

I only want to use one of the objects in this group. Can someone tell me how to do this?

Thanks in advance.

Re: ISO- Inkscape tut on breaking apart a grouped svg file

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:10 pm
by GrammyKrausse
Choose the ungroup function. Choose the object file then ungroup. If it is a svg pdf you may have to ungroup more then once but it will tell you in the message at the bottom of the screen.

Re: ISO- Inkscape tut on breaking apart a grouped svg file

Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:36 am
by firstcut
Here is an awesome tip I learned from Heather M at this tutorial
http://imagesbyheatherm.wordpress.com/2 ... es-to-svg/

Hold down the control key and click with the selection (arrow) tool and you can select one item from a group.
Then you can copy and paste it to a new document or edit>invert selection and delete everything else.

Re: ISO- Inkscape tut on breaking apart a grouped svg file

Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:09 am
by sfandm
Yeaaaaaaaa, Firstcut it worked. Thank you so much. Great tut.