How to create a cut line around bitmap in inkscape

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Inkscape Cut outline

In reading through this post, I figured that I wanted to see how to do something similar in Inkscape. A quick search didn’t bring up anything, so hopefully I’m not duplicating efforts here. There is no Shape Builder in Inkscape so it is a little more manual of a process. Draw a box that is larger than the shape you want to outline and give it some sort of fill Make a copy of your vector shape in Inkscape (You should have two copies of your shape) Select the new version of the shape Ctl+Shift+F…

How does this one work for you?

The forum strips out bitmaps from SVGs. The SVGs appear very small but you can change the size in the markup.