: Selecting Object using Left Mouse Click copies Object in Imported PDF in Inkscape I am working in Inkscape with a graph that was created as a PDF, and I want to edit some of the lines. The

I am working in Inkscape with a graph that was created as a PDF, and I want to edit some of the lines.

The problem is that every time I click on an object, it creates a copy. I cannot do anything with the original object, including I cannot delete it.

This is driving me crazy.

How do I get Inkscape back so that when I select an object using a left mouse click, it just selects the object, so I can work with it as it appears on the screen.

Selecting all and copying to a new blank file does not solve the problem.

Thank you for your help. I have never had this problem before with Inkscape.

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@Connie430

It's not Inkscape

Inkscape is actually not duplicating the object when you click it. If you look at the green, line for example, there's about 25 identical lines stacked on top of each other. When you click it, you are just selecting the top of a large stack.

It also looks like this is true of the whole drawing. Look at, for example the object with the ID g4160 and g4324. They are two existing objects but are the same.

This graph looks system-generated, so I would say the issue that is causing all these duplicates is with that code. It's not being caused by Inkscape.

Workaround

Inkscape does not have a build in feature for getting rid of duplicate objects like this, nor does it offer an easy way to select them, short of clicking and deleting them one-by-one.

There's good news though. This bug report has an extension (see posts #1 and #2 ) for removing duplicate lines. There was also a thread about this on the Inkscape forums.

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