Marker color does not change when stroke color is changed.

Not reproduced on Windows XP, Inkscape 0.91 and trunk revision 14005.

Could you please give details on your operating system and attach an SVG example file that shows the issue?

I have the same problem on Inkscape 0.91 on Mac OS 10.10.2 .

I open an existing SVG file created with Inkscape 0.4x, add a path, add an arrow head to it, and change its "Stroke paint". The arrow head remains black. This doesn't always happen. Even in the same plot, some arrow heads change colors and others don't.

I'm not sure, but it *seems* that once it starts, you are no longer able to draw new paths whose arrowheads obey the stroke colors. I'm currently at such a stage. I then save the plot, quit Inkscape, and open the plot again. Nope. I'm no longer able to draw new paths whose arrowheads obey the stroke colors.

Going back to Inkscape 0.48.5 .

Regards,

Ryo

Not reproduced on Crunchbang Waldorf, Inkscape trunk rev. 14007.

@Joe, Ryo - Would you be willing to attach an example SVG file showing the bug so that we could investigate?

Hi,

attached is a file containing lines it doesn't happen for, and lines it does happen for. The lines it does happen for are copied from another document which was originally made using 0.48.

I'm using 0.91 on a Mac 10.10.2 via macports and X11 2.7.7.

Joe

Thanks for the test file!

The affected markers are missing the inkscape:isstock="true" attribute in their definition. Not surprising since it's a new attribute added in 0.91 (rev. 11671) to fix Bug #165865 "Fix marker color on duplicate".

Adding the attribute to the SVG code manually fixes the issue, but it's only a workaround.

I am seeing a related issue in 0.91 r13725. If I select many lines at once and then change their stroke colours simultaneously, the marker colour is only updated for the last line I selected. I can force the other lines to update their marker colours to match the new stroke colour by selecting each one individually, but this gets very tedious when I have a large number of lines to modify.

jazzynico said

> Adding the attribute to the SVG code manually fixes the issue

Could you or somebody provide an instruction on how to do this?

I'm editing an Inkscape SVG file and cannot change the arrowhead color at all. I'm using 0.91. Perhaps the file I'm editing may have been originally produced with 0.4x .

I don't want to redo everything on 0.91.

> Could you or somebody provide an instruction on how to do this?

Load the svg file into a text editor (Notepad++ or TextMate).

Search for:
<marker

and replace with
<marker
inkscape:isstock="true"

(On TextMate, you can enter a multiline replace by pressing <Alt>-Return. Don't know about Notepad++)

Not sure it can be easily fixed, but at least we could try to detect stock markers (based on the marker's name) and automatically add the missing attribute.

This issue is still present in v1.0.2 on Windows 10 2004.

This issue is still present in Inkscape 1.1 (c68e22c387, 2021-05-23) Windows 10 Build 19041