: Fill many small gaps in Inkscape I traced a bitmap and after some tweaks I have what you can see in the image below (it's a detail of the whole canvas). As you can see some small gaps

@Carla748

A rough way to elliminate only the scratches but not the holes is to superimpose 2 slightly offset versions of the whole path:

Select the path, duplicate it (Ctrl-D), offset the duplicate a couple of pixels down (or down and to the right if you have vertical scratches). Offseting the duplicate can be done with Alt + arrows.

Now select both the original and the duplicate, and do Path -> Union.

Your holes will shrink a bit, your traces will grow a couple of pixels, and maybe some part of a scratch remains, but most should be gone.

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@Hamaas979

Your file contains a sigle path, where the tiny holes and spurious white scratches are path borders just like all others.

If you select your huge path and call Path -> Break Apart, you will end up with many simpler closed paths, where the holes and scratches will also appear as paths.

At this point, if you call Path -> Combine you will get back to the beginning, where one path inside another will appear as a hole. Don't to this.

Instead, with all the subpaths still selected, call Path -> Union. Voilá!

All overlapping holes and scratches will be merged with the bigger traces.

So the recipe is Break Apart and then Union.

Good luck cloning that PCB.

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