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I'm new, but I thought I would getting the hang of transfering pictures and such. I'm trying to do a sprial word sentence. I get everything perfect, I highlight the word spiral, click object to path (which seems to do nothing!), then I save it as an SVG, Then I go and try and pull it up in SCAL, and it just shows a spiral line (which I had cleared before I saved in Inkscape), NO words or letters? I've tried it several different ways, the same thing happens... Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks......

How did you make the text for the word spiral? Did you type it in Inkscape and then do a text to path or did you use a web app and the import it into Inkscape? If you imported it, you have to autotrace it, but since you have the spiral line I'm guessing you already did that. Here's a checklist to go through when your SVG is blank or doesn't look right in SCAL:

in Inkscape
Check the Outline View by selecting View>Display mode>Outline
to see if it looks like what you want to cut

If the Outline View does not show as expected then...
If you imported a bitmap (jpg, png, bmp, gif, etc.) did you autotrace it? (You will see a red x in outline mode if a bitmap was not autotraced)
If not, select it, then Path>Trace Bitmap
If you autotraced, did you delete the bitmap version, and not the vector version. (You will see a red x in outline mode if you accidently deleted the vector copy)
Did you convert text into objects?
If not, select text then Path>Object to Path

If the Outline View does show as expected
then
Have you ungrouped everything?
If not then select all then Object>Ungroup repeatedly until the message at bottom of screen says there are no objects to ungroup.
(You can use Path>Combine but SCAL doesn't like Grouping)

If none of that works then
-Double check that the file you imported was really an SVG. Check this (and prevent future occurences) by not selecting "All Files" in the file type menu of the Import dialog box.
-Make sure the image is made up of closed paths, Inkscape can not cut lines, per se.
-Make sure all objects are within the page boundaries. (Select all, then View>Zoom>Drawing to check for stray objects or parts of the image that extend past the page boundaries.)
-Make sure that all shapes are converted to paths (select each shape, then Path>Object to Path)

If none of these solve the problem, try one or these
-Select all then change the colors (click the color bar at the bottom of the screen).
-Select all, then copy, then open a new document and paste.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.... I'm not exactly sure what I did differently, but I when I went to look at it in the "Outline" design option, and saved it like that, it's showing up perfectly... go figure? Thanks for all your suggestions:)