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: Select text and remove shape from another layer I have two layers: layer 2 – text “hello” layer 1 – black square I would like to select an outline of the text, change my highlighted

@Debbie163

Posted in: #Inkscape #Selections #Text

I have two layers:


layer 2 – text “hello”
layer 1 – black square


I would like to select an outline of the text, change my highlighted layer to layer 1, then cut/delete that shape from the black layer.

I will then be able to delete/make-invisible the text layer and what remains will be a black box with a shape of the text “hello” cut out of it.

In Photoshop [Mac] (which I no longer have access to), this was simple:


Cmd-click the text layer
Select the black box layer
Cut pixels


What is the equivalent in Inkscape?

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@Reiling762

As Inkscape does not have shaped selections as these mostly make sense in pixel graphics. Instead you manipulate the shape of an object through another shape:


Duplicate the text.
Add the square to the selection (click it holding ⇧).
Path → Difference.

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