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**Shirley Anne** · 23-12-2008, 06:34 PM

Thanks Lucille - I now have .46 installed and working .47 sitting on my desktop waiting to be unzipped for when I have time to play with it. No doubt you will be hearing from me again soon !!

Thanks

Shirley

Originally Posted by Lucille

Shirley

If I was you I would start with .46 because it is stable and as .47 is a beta version and has bugs, there are times when it is better to use .46. When I do this and want to save as DXF I open it again in .47 so I can save in the new RM format. I hope I've explained that OK, if not just say

**elwoodsusanm** · 23-12-2008, 09:01 PM

Originally Posted by Lucille

Vista doesn't matter it should still work.

If you have done as I suggested and not missed anything out it should work, assuming you are still having problems with the weld.

Can you tell us exactly how what you did and what font etc? Maybe their is a problem there.

Lucille I did what I've always done and the font is Big Mummy. It works absolutely fine in .46 so I can't understand it

**elwoodsusanm** · 23-12-2008, 09:09 PM

I see an update has been posted at 5 pm today! I am going to try this one

Just tried it and have the same faults

**Lucille** · 23-12-2008, 09:45 PM

It has to be something you are either doing wrong or not doing when you install it as it works for everyone else, I can't think of anything more at the moment, but if I do I'll be back

Just on thing what view are you using when you work?

**elwoodsusanm** · 23-12-2008, 09:50 PM

Do you mean outline mode? I am doing what I have always done so I am getting very confused

I keep trying it in .46 and it works

**foltzy13** · 23-12-2008, 10:37 PM

I was having problems with welding words to. I would do object to path and than do union which is how I've always done it and it wouldn't work. I have to do object to path and then go hit ungroup and than do union and it will work. Don't know why but that's how I got it to weld for me.

**Lucille** · 23-12-2008, 11:06 PM

Folyzy13 and Sue

When you work with text in .47 if you do the Object to Path then Path Union it won't weld.

However if you do Object to Path and then Path Union in .46 it will weld, perhaps that is your problem Sue.

Can I also add that unless you are doing Text on a Path you don't need to do Object to Path in either version of Inkscape, just overlap the letter and then weld.

**foltzy13** · 23-12-2008, 11:16 PM

Thanks Lucille
I just tried doing the Path Union without the object to path and it worked wonderfully. My letters are welded together. Thanks again Lucille.