Inkscape: how to create inner border?

Question

I create figure and set border width to 1px.

My image actual size is 100px. But with border this is 102px. How to set inner border instead of o*uther border*? In Protoshop I can select type of border - inner, outer or center. But in Inkscape I not found this option.

Answer 1

Not sure if by "border" you mean "stroke" but it appears SVG standards don't allow for inner/outer strokes, and thus neither does Inkscape. It seems a common thing to do is fake it by duplicating the object and shrinking/growing it so you get the border you want. Though I don't imagine this would work as well for an inner border as an outer border.

Inkscape bug: Inner/outer/center stroke placement

Answer 2

Even though Inkscape doesn't support changing the type of stroke, you can still get the end result you're looking for. There may be more than one way, but what I do is:

1. create the shape
2. select the shape (F1)
3. copy the shape (Ctrl + C)
4. paste the shape in place (Ctrl + Alt + V)
5. change the stroke width to 2x the inner border you want (e.g. 2px if you want a 1px inner border)
6. select no fill for the pasted shape
7. now select the original shape
8. paste the shape in place again (Ctrl + Alt + V)
9. select the pasted shape and the stroke shape (holding shift down)
10. set clip (select menu Object > Clip > Set)

This will clip the border shape, omitting the extra (outer) part of the stroke.