: Bug with cutting shapes? I just recognized a big bug. Could someone please confirm or give me a hint? When cutting a shape with another shape and repasting the shape back, so both shapes lie

@Kevin459

Not a bug, but a feature: if you paste a shape from the clipboard, it's placed just where your mouse cursor is. As to "paste" the cutting shape back, duplicate it, then cut the duplicate from the other shape:

Try the following steps:


draw a rectangle (remove the stroke)
Ctrl+C
Ctrl+V after moving the mouse a little in x and y direction from the centre
Ctrl+D duplicates copied shape (switches selection to new shape)
Ctrl+Leftclick first shape (adds it to selection)
Ctrl+- (minus key) to cut the duplicated shape from the first shape


The little gap that may show is only a rendering artefact. I tried this with Inkscape 0.91.

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@Holmes874

Could you provide a step-by-step process? Normally pasting does not preserve the objects location on the pasteboard...so there's a natural shift. What I often do is duplicate the 'cutting' shape and cut with that, leaving the original shape in the exact same position.

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