Hello, I would like to remove a bunch of random lines from the drawing in the attached images. For example, the whole image is surrounded by a rectangle, but I want to remove the left and right sides so that the triangles on the ends are the boundaries of the image. Also, I drew small lines in some of the letters to connect the middle of them with the body of the image so I want to remove the lines that are in the way of that.

P.S. Inkscape is the most unintuitive software I've ever used. It makes no assumptions of what the user wants in order to help them. There's not even a help search bar.........

I suggest stepping through Inkscape's tutorials in the Help menu. They are fast and easy, and cover many of these basics.

Hi jcreed77

Assuming you letters are True letters, I would

• select the text (status bar, bottom of screen, should display "text in layer xxx" or something alike) then do path > object to path. With 1.3 you get a unique path, with former versions a group you can ungroup) : check on status bar if the result is a group or a path.
• Draw the small rectangles that overlap letters , select one rectangle and the path that was a text and do object- difference. Remember that the small rectangle must be atop the text and that only two paths can be selected for path > difference.
• For the corners, draw triangles, select the large rectangle and do path difference.

PS : the best way to get help is perhaps to avoid your kind of post scriptum😊

That said, feel free to ask for more precisions.

Hope this helps.