Hi Everyone,

I am a newbie with Inkscape and although I am making some progress, I have managed to get this box up on my screen and cant get rid of it.....  I would be very grateful if some one could tell me...

Thanks so much. I have attached a screen shot.

The box you see is called the page. If you select Document Properties, you'll see a tick for show page border. You can't remove the page, but you can un-tick that box and make it "invisible."

Note that the page boundary serves two useful purposes:

• If you load the SVG file into a web browser, only the content inside the page will be visible.
• If you export to a PNG file and select the "Page" option, only the content inside the page will be exported.

So if you want to create an SVG file for a web browser, or a PNG for some other program, it's arguably best to leave the page outline visible. You can change its size via the Document Properties dialog, to better suit what you're trying to create.

Xav

If you export to a PNG file and select the "Page" option, only the content inside the page will be exported.

Similarly, when saving a copy as PDF to send to a print-house, the page is the only region that will be included in the PDF.

Welcome aboard. 

I'll agree with the others.  Displaying the page/canvas border is a good best practice.  If your going to a printer with a PDF, it shows you the non-printable area.  If the printer is border-less, this works fine.  If it is not, it at least gives you a visual of the page area.  You would have to account for the printers margin.  It also serves to show if you have gone outside the canvas region.  Objects outside the canvas won't display in many cases, like most browsers.  If you do turn it off, remember to in document preferences set the page size to the artwork size for web and many other applications and remember the printing ramifications.  It also allows centering to page to be visible against the page size.

Hi everyone, I'm trying to laser cut a topo map of Hawaii and cannot get rid of that page border.  I have the box unchecked to show the border and it will not go away.  It shows up as a cut line when I move it into our Glowforge too.  I'm a teacher and this would be a project to do with middle school students if I can get it right.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you!

That doesn't look like the page border, to be honest (the border is usually thicker at the right and bottom to simulate a shadow). Are you sure you haven't drawn a rectangle object? Can you click it to select? Do you have multiple layers? Perhaps it's on a locked layer?

Perhaps you could share the SVG, but I think you have some other object in there.

Thanks! You're right.  I started a new project, got rid of the border, and opened the SVG.  The rectangle's still there and I can't figure out how to get rid of it.  I can click on it, and I tried using the erase tool and right-clicking stroke and selecting "remove stroke" but nothing happens.  I can separate all of the contour lines and delete the bathymetric lines, which is great, but I can't move or delete the rectangle.  I'm new so apologize if this is something really simple.  I attached the file so you can have a look.  Thanks again! 

If you are looking to get to this, it is not exactly simple.

Thanks for sharing your file.

Your rectangle is not one object, it's made up from the edges of multiple objects piled up on top of each other. Click on the 'rectangle' then hold the left mouse button and drag away from the image (you can Undo afterwards). Do you see how you have a single contour with a border around the edge? Your whole image is made up of different single contours, each with its own edge (often in different places) and that's where the border is coming from. And unfortunately there are quite a lot of them.

Tyler Durden posted recently about an extension that can cut multiple objects within a group, so I gave it a try and have attached what I got. This certainly got rid of the outside lines, though I had to lose a tiny bit of the contours near the edge. But... I'm not sure if this messes up things for when you go to cut? I have little experience with cutters and don't know if you need an 'edge' all the way around? Right now, it's just a bunch of single lines, mostly not connected to each other.

Thank you! That's actually perfect.  I can easily clean that up to get the cutlines I need on Gloworge.  I'm trying to add the extension so that I can do that myself and the Boolean Operations Extension seems to be blank.  I copied and pasted the src/ files into the extensions folder (took me a while to figure this out since I'm not a CS guy), but I obviously must have done something wrong.  

Hi again! Glad we're getting somewhere.

I'm not certain what the problem is with the extension. I see you're using a Mac, and it does say that the extension hasn't been tested with Mac, so I'm not sure if there's an issue there. (It says not tested with Windows either, but I did a quick test and it seemed to work fine.)

Can I double check where you put the files ... in Inkscape, if you go to Edit / Preferences, then click on System... it will show you a list of folder locations, including one for 'User Extensions'. Did you copy the files into that folder? Or did you use the folder location further down the list for 'Inkscape Extensions'? You seem to have many other extensions there already, so I'm thinking you might have used the 2nd one (my user extensions folder was empty on both Linux & Windows). If you did use Inkscape Extensions (which is usually within your system folders, and often needs more permissions) could you try again in the User Extensions folder and see if that works?

Unfortunately I'm unable to test on a Mac to see if it's just a folder issue, or a problem with the extension. :(

Smitty_Science, 

Describe your OS & version, the version of Inkscape and the installer you used, plus any special hardware like tablet/stylus or multiple monitors.

I have an svg design that I imported into inkscape and am unable to get rid of it?  I deleted all the files on my computer but it keeps importing in to cricut design space as whatever new design I try to import; I am using Windows 11.  Can someone help me, please??

@Drsarkers are you talking about the green rounded rectangle? Could be a clipping path - at least Inkscape can visualise this kind of non-destructive "masking".