User talk:MalcolmGin

Welcome to the Commons, MalcolmGin!

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You might want to use Stroke To Path (Path menu) on those arrows, as having correct PNG rendering is pretty important for use of the images in other Wikimedia projects. That's what I do with all my images, anywho. Cheers, Stannered 18:11, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hitting Refresh normally gives the server a kick for me in Opera. In other browsers you may need to Ctrl+Refresh, or even add "?action=purge" to the end of the URL, visit that page and refresh that. Stannered 19:15, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re-reading your message, did you use Stroke to Path or Object to Path? Object to path leaves linestyles as they are; Stroke to path flattens stroke styles into actual shapes (lines > rectangles, arrowheads > separate shapes). You'll need to re-upload once you've fixed it. Stannered 19:56, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]