Whether you want to copy something from Illustrator or add a swanky SVG element to your slide, it’s all possible and we’re here to share our secret tips with you. so carefully choosing search terms can do some nice selecting.Although it’s been possible for a long time, using vector files in PowerPoint has recently become significantly easier. In the next step 'find' all objects that use 'ffffff' and then set their fill to nothing.Īs another example, if you enter fill:#f in the find field Inkscape will select objects with a fill color of fefeff, ffefff, feffff, fdeacb, f11100 etc. You can have Inkscape automatically replace their fill with white, that is in the replace box you can enter ffffff. Now if you pick the right options, all objects that use this color will be selected when you 'find'. You will have to delete the last two characters! or this won't work, because although Inkscape shows RGBA in the GUI, in the SVG it separates the color and opacity.
Then in the find dialog paste this in the find field.
Still, since Inkscape can select by color, if you have objects that are 'almost white' filled, you can select one, open the fill and stroke dialog, and in the fill tab copy the hex color of the object, the box on the right that contains a code like "fefefeff". It's the 'almost' that's going to be a problem. Or, I'm sure that druban or others will be along with some other tricks, before too long Then the next time you need to select them, you can hide the other layers. Or since it sounds like they will have the same color, and/or other style attributes, you could even Combine. Whenever I have several selected, I could group them. Or maybe I can use selection box around 3 that are close together in a corner, hold Shift, and click on a couple more. After a while, now I might have 5 Groups of 10 objects (or 10 Groups of 5, or whatever). Then after I have say 10 little objects selected, I'll Group them. But using Shift key, you can make a multiple selection, and keep adding to the selection, one-by-one. Some of them might only be selectable by single click. Often if I have a lot of little things to select, I will use a combination of techniques.
For example, you could Group them, so that selecting any one of them will select all of them. If this is a selection that you might need to make more than once, it might make sense to go the tedious route for the first time, and then do something to make them easier to select next time. I see that "Touch Selection" looks interesting, which I was unaware of, until now. You may find a particular technique, or combination of techniques, that will work. Actually you could look at that whole page on different selection techniques. I'm not very familiar with using Find dialog. With that, you can sort of select by color, but I think you need to know the exact color code. If there are too many to select individually, and/or not restricted to a small area, you might be able to use Edit menu > Find dialog. This will leave the blackish fills selected with white fills deselected. If you accidentally select some with white fills, you could then hold Shift key, and click once on each white fill that was accidentally selected. Or if they are located in one area of the image, you could use the selection box, or so-called rubberband selection. If there are relatively few, you could simply hold Shift key, and click once on each one, thereby selecting only those with blackish fills. But if they truly are blackish fills.that will complicate the selection. If that's the case, you can continue, and use the same procedures mentioned. Are you sure that they are filled with blackish color? Could they perhaps have path width so large that fill can't be seen. Hhmmm.no, Inkscape doesn't have a select by color feature. Is it possible to do something like that in Inkscape? In this case, I would like to set the stroke color of all the paths in the image to black. But there might as well be paths with "almost black" stroke color (something like #010101). So far, all the paths I have checked have black stroke color. Also, I would like to "standardize" the path stroke color. I would like to "standardize" this image by clearing the fills of all the paths and leaving only the background color. I can not tell exactly, because there are so many paths in this file that it would be very time consuming to examine them one by one. Also, some of the closed paths might not be filled at all. It is also possible that some of the closed paths are filled with a color very similar to white, but not exactly white (e.g. Some of them are closed and filled with white color while some of them are open. I have an (apparently) black and white eps image with many small paths which are often interlaced with each other.