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Help Using Inkscape => Inkscape Beginners' Questions => Topic started by: cyberink on August 23, 2018, 11:08:29 AM
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HI ALL
I need help?
How do you print out multiple copies of the same image or text in inkscape.
I tried every way from my printer to print out 5,10,30,40 or more copies of the same image. And only one copy is printed. I every call
Epson to help but they tell me its some setting in inkscape because my printer prints multiple copies from notebook.
Why can't I print out more the one copy from inkscape with my printer. Please help. :-S :beg:
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Hi.
Sad but true: pdf is the most common denominator between printers. What you can see in a pdf is what you can expect to see as a print.
Also printing a pdf from a pdf viewer has settings for the size, number of copies etc.
I'd suggest saving as pdf and printing outside inkscape.
Honestly I don't have a printer and I have to rely on a print shop for prints. Yet I haven't been to any print shop where they knew about inkscape -yet alone the svg format's existence.
Svg was developed and the spec is mostly defined by browser vendors. So as a general advice, print from a pdf outside inkscape.
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What's your Inkscape version? 0.92, 0.92.1, 0.92.2 or 0.92.3? If it's not 0.92.3, try updating.
0.92.4 seems to bring more improvements for Epson printers:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.92.4
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Moini
Thank for suggestion But. By changing to an updated version is not going to make it print multiple copies of the same image.
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Laxur
Can you explain to me how do I change the .svg to a pdf with out changing anything to the image in the .svg file. Then print it out.
So I print it out correctly with no problems.
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Usually it's as easy as saving as pdf. It brings up a dialog with a few options:
convert text to paths -that should preserve the text's appearance no matter if the target machint has the font installed.
Then, there is the rasterize filter effects option.
Pdf-s don't support filtering so if you work with filters that is more or less the only way to go.
Filters can be added from the built-in menu or by zhe blur slider, and even custom blending modes are achieved by filtering.
If you don't use filters in your file excessively and/or don't set a too large resolution there shouldn't be a problem in theory.
Texts are considered to be printed at 300 dpi and photos at 600 dpi, however depending on your machine there is a size limit where the cpu starts to melt.
Then there are some few other things you better avoid.
First, masking has a bad support in my experience. Try using clipping wherever necessary instead or other means of effects with a similar visual outcome.
Using gradientmeshes may not work as fluently either, although I haven't tested it. (Meshes are a feature off of the svg specs, needs testing.)
Pattern fills may render with gaps between the tiles some cases and extreme small scaled gradients may cause some rendering errors but apart these pdf should preserve the look of the svg.
May seem alot of things that can go wrong but in reality most of the time it works fine.
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File menu > Save As > PDF
That will bring up the dialog which Lazur mentioned, and you can use his comments to decide which options to use. If you still aren't sure which options to use, you could share your SVG file with us, and we can help you decide.
Then open the PDF with your PDF viewer, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. Then print from the PDF viewer. That should allow you to print multiple copies.
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^-Would suggest trying out pdf xchange viewer (https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer).
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Thanks brynn and Lazur if have any trouble i will come back
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Hi
Lazur
When I tried to save my svg image to a pdf file there was only one option for (PDF) in version .92
The options you stated in post #5 are not included in the drop down menu. If I under stood you correctly.
So can and should I just save to the only stated option (PDF portable Document Feeder).
MY image is just a black 6 point text with up case letters. No color.
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Yes, there is just one choice. After you choose that one option, and you click Save, another dialog box will come up, which has all those options in it.
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Hi Cyberink,
as Brynn replied, just click the save as pdf option and it should pop up a dialog with the options mentioned.