Hi all,

I'm quite new to Inkscape. I am trying to email an svg file to someone but when I save the image as an svg file then send it I then become unable to edit individual parts of it - I can only click on the whole image.

Some searching here: https://inkscape.org/learn/tutorials/select-individual-object/ indicates that when I save it as an svg file it becomes a raster not a vector image. I don't know why this would happen though?

(Usually when I save I can edit the image as usual. Please see 2 attached images - one I can't edit and my usual saved one I can edit).

Any help would be much appreciated! 

Not sure how to compare these screenshots showing different documents.

Saving as SVG don´t converts any vector data into raster images - this is just true for effects like blur or other filter effects.

Only File->Export PNG Image…  dialog will generate raster images leaving the original Inkscape file untouched.

When you´re trying to export individual parts as SVG you need a totally different approach.

Thanks Polygon.

For the screenshots, I meant the 'Correct' one has saved so I can edit individual elements (the bottom status bar shows one layer), but the 'Incorrect' one even though at the top it is saved as an svg file, the bottom status bar says 'Image' meaning it has saved as a raster image. 

I agree my original Inkscape file should be untouched but it's now a raster image. I must have done something when, or just before, I saved it but I don't know what I did :(

By blur or other filter effects do you mean those effects will only work with a raster image not a vector image?

Thanks again :)

SVG is just a container - so you can add a raster image and save to SVG - but it will then just contains a raster image - no conversion takes place.

You can add filter effects to vector objects and the vector data stays as vector. Just the effects will be rasterized.

Thanks Polygon for explaining that.

I'm then not sure how I saved the images as raster, when they were originally vector. Anyone know how I could have, inadvertently changed a vector to a raster image?

Alt+B makes a bitmap copy of selected objects...