02-06-2019, 05:56 AM
If you do File>Open, the image is imported and fully rendered. If you don't forget to tick the "Import paths" options, the SVG vector data is also imported as Paths and can be found in the Paths list.
You can also create an empty image, right click the (possibly empty) Paths list and Import path and select a SVG. In that case you only get the SVG vectors as paths and nothing is rendered.
In both cases the paths are editable: select the path in the Paths list, start the Path tool and click anywhere on the path and this should put you in edit mode with the nodes displayed. But if you click too far, Gimp thinks you want to create a new path and you get a new path instead (and nothing in it).
You can also create an empty image, right click the (possibly empty) Paths list and Import path and select a SVG. In that case you only get the SVG vectors as paths and nothing is rendered.
In both cases the paths are editable: select the path in the Paths list, start the Path tool and click anywhere on the path and this should put you in edit mode with the nodes displayed. But if you click too far, Gimp thinks you want to create a new path and you get a new path instead (and nothing in it).