Node Tool or Dynamic Offset LPE: Where Should a Revisable Outline Live?
In Inkscape 1.2 and newer, a uniform outline around an existing path — a sticker border, for example — has two documented routes: edit a duplicate node-by-node with the Node tool (N), or attach a Live Path Effect such as Dynamic Offset or Linked Offset from Path > Path Effects. The trade-off is where the geometry lives. Node editing is destructive: once t
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