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Hi
I did a title in my photo program in an arch shape, saved it as a png. I opened it in inkscape to save it as a svg. I saved it as wishstar.svg & made sure it said svg in the drop down box. I opened it in scal & nothing showed up but an empty box. What am I doing wrong?? Please help if you can. Thanks

If you OPENED in SCAL that is your problem.

You IMPORT an SVG file into SCAL

Does that do it?

Did you convert your title to path? From the menu, Path/Object to path.

You didn't mention tracing it, so I'm going to guess that is the problem.
Here is a troubleshooting guide for blank svgs:

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.

I did get it to work. The problem was I didn't check outline.