So.ĩ) With your svg:g line still selected look to the bottom right of the XML Editor. Here's the clever bit - SVG doesn't have a concept of layers at all, so Inkscape implements them as groups with a bit of extra metadata. In the XML editor you should see your selected item change into a group (svg:g) which has the path inside it. Select the first one in the XML editor.Ĩ) Click the 'Group' button in the main Inkscape toolbar. You can make this work in an existing document, but these instructions assume a blank one.Ģ) Trace your image to give you a single group of multiple stacked scans.ĥ) Open the XML editor (Edit > XML Editor)Ħ) Select one of the paths - any one will doħ) You should now see your path selected in the XML editor, alongside the other paths that make up this scan. There's a hacky way to do it using the XML editor - it's still a manual process, but might be easier than trying to move then realign thing in the UI:ġ) Start with a new document.

I don't use it much, but I think if I did use it for screenprinting designs, I'd probably make a new feature request ( viewtopic.php?f=28&t=286).) I know this is often needed for screenprinting, and that Trace Bimap is an ideal tool for that. (Actually, now that I think of it, that would be a nice feature to add to Trace Bitmap - the ability to have each scan placed on its own layer. In this way, you can select them in any order, and move them to their appropriate layer. While holding the Alt key, every time you click, you select the next object below. Click once on the stack (which selects the top object), then Alt + click to select the next one below. After that you can use the Alt key, to select objects that may by hidden below others. The other way, you also need to make all the new layers first, and then Ungroup the scan.

Then select whatever scan is now on top, and move it to the proper layer, etc. Then select the top scan, and use Shift + PgUp to move it to the top layer. Next, you'll need to Ungroup (because the scans come out of the trace in a Group). One way would be to make all the new layers first. I can think of a couple of better ways, and someone else might know something even better, lol. Realigning and nudging can be done, but imo, not the best way to do this.

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