Today I was messing with some designs and I noticed that two objects laid over each other were visible still. I checked Fill/Stroke and saw that the opacity was set to 100%. I did some searching and found that on the Layer tab, each item had a blend mode on it.
And they were set to 92.4% in the Normal blend mode.
The issue I am having, is that every new item I create or import has this exact setting in blend mode. Normal...Opacity 92.4%.
This is just new today. I hadn't updated it...I figure I just changed a setting accidentally, but now I have no idea how to set the default for blend mode to "Normal" and "100% opacity". After spending a while trying to find the setting I may have changed, I decided to update it. I was using version 1.4 now I am using 1.4.2...sadly uninstalling 1.4 and installing 1.4.2 changed nothing and somehow the default is to have everything at 92.4% opacity in the blend mode settings.
It is getting REALLY annoying having to go to the layer tab and adjust that opacity to 100% every time I add anything new. Every shape, any drawing I do, any image I import. Every time I do a Trace Bitmap...and every layer of that trace bitmap.
The file location is shown in the Preferences>System page.
In Windows, it is ../users/username/AppData/roaming/inkscape
You can even delete or rename the entire directory, Inkscape will recreate it when re-launching. (That will clobber all custom additions and modifications you might have made.)
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Hello,
Today I was messing with some designs and I noticed that two objects laid over each other were visible still. I checked Fill/Stroke and saw that the opacity was set to 100%. I did some searching and found that on the Layer tab, each item had a blend mode on it.
And they were set to 92.4% in the Normal blend mode.
The issue I am having, is that every new item I create or import has this exact setting in blend mode. Normal...Opacity 92.4%.
This is just new today. I hadn't updated it...I figure I just changed a setting accidentally, but now I have no idea how to set the default for blend mode to "Normal" and "100% opacity". After spending a while trying to find the setting I may have changed, I decided to update it. I was using version 1.4 now I am using 1.4.2...sadly uninstalling 1.4 and installing 1.4.2 changed nothing and somehow the default is to have everything at 92.4% opacity in the blend mode settings.
It is getting REALLY annoying having to go to the layer tab and adjust that opacity to 100% every time I add anything new. Every shape, any drawing I do, any image I import. Every time I do a Trace Bitmap...and every layer of that trace bitmap.
Any ideas?
I'd try resetting the preferences. The old preferences persist after installing a new version of Inkscape, and need to be reset manually. https://inkscape.org/forums/questions/getting-back-to-square-one-and-starting-over-its-easy/
Thanks. I believe I reset the layers preferences. I'll try just default resetting everything. Hopefully that does it.
I think that it's a bug that's causing the 92.4% opacity..
Please provide details.
I should have a chance tonight to try resetting to defaults and report back.
I am 99% sure I tried that already...but...certainly worth trying again.
If that doesnt work...does anyone know where the settings file is stored? Maybe I can delete it and that will force a hard reset.
The file location is shown in the Preferences>System page.
In Windows, it is ../users/username/AppData/roaming/inkscape
You can even delete or rename the entire directory, Inkscape will recreate it when re-launching. (That will clobber all custom additions and modifications you might have made.)
Yes thats what I assumed would happen.so if resetting it doesnt work,I'll ho rename that folder.
Ok I went in and reset it again and restarted it and it seems to be sorted out. Thanks for the help.
Perhaps when I did that before, I didn't restart inkscape and just tried it right away and that is why it didn't work.
Either way...Seems to be working now.