Limitations of Path Effects
Path effects are under constant development to both improve existing effects and add requested features. New path effects are added typically with every release, so the following limitations will likely change in the future:
- Path effects can currently only be applied to one object at a time.
- Path effects that modify geometry (such as bend, perspective, and so on) will not affect pixel/bitmap images imported into Inkscape.
- Path effects that modify path geometry will not work on text objects. This can be worked around by converting the text object to a path first by selecting Path > Object to Path.
- Path effects will not show up in SVGs loaded into web browsers.
You can, however, apply path effects to your geometry by choosing Path > Object to Path, which will apply all your path effects and give you geometry that you can then edit normally. Moreover, this gets around the problems of viewing an SVG in a web browser, since there...
