Hi there,
i0m drawing a rectangle with rounded borders.
I set no internal fill and i set a dotted border.
On the screen it is ok but when I print the draw I see the dotted lines longer than the needs.
I mean: the dotted line goes over the rectangle size ..

Anyone reported it?

Thanks

Anyone have the same problem?
Now I add an image to show the problem: I have no problem on the screen but only when I print the sheet on my HP C4380.
Then i scanned the printed page ...

I forgot to mention the OS .. Windows XP

Thanks

I can't reproduce your problem with Inkscape 0.47pre1 and a Brother HL 2035 (B&W laser): the printout looks the same as the svg drawing onscreen and the exported PDF file (onscreen).

Unless someone can identify this as a specific issue with HP C4380 on XP, some questions instead ;-)

• What happens if you export/save as PDF first, and then print the PDF?
• What happens if you create a new drawing with just one sample rectangle and apply the same style attributes?
• Maybe you could attach a sample svg file?

~suv wrote:I can't reproduce your problem with Inkscape 0.47pre1 and a Brother HL 2035 (B&W laser): the printout looks the same as the svg drawing onscreen and the exported PDF file (onscreen).

I'm using "Inkscape 0.46, built Apr 1 2008"

~suv wrote:Unless someone can identify this as a specific issue with HP C4380 on XP, some questions instead

• What happens if you export/save as PDF first, and then print the PDF?
  

If I save as bitmap (png) no problem.
If i 'save as..' PDF no problem.
If I print on a virtual PDF printer (FreePDF XP) I have the problem.

~suv wrote:

What happens if you create a new drawing with just one sample rectangle and apply the same style attributes?

I'm not able to reproduce the error; even if i copy the rectangle and paste it in a new svg document i have no problem
If I add a new rectangle (with the same style) I have two problems...

~suv wrote:

Maybe you could attach a sample svg file?

No problem, I attach the file (I stripped some images 'cause the max allowed size and added other two rectangles).
Thanks

Allow me another - maybe naïve - question: why do you need FreePDF XP? From what I understand skimming its homepage the main purpose of FreePDF is to generate PDF documents with every application (basically it's a GUI for Ghostscript). But Inkscape already has native support of PDF and Postscript ('Save as…' has many formats available via the extension system).

I don't know the printing system of XP, but shouldn't Inkscape just print correctly using XP or HP printer drivers?

Before trying to figure out if it is
- a fixable issue in the svg source (indicated by not being able to reproduce it in a new drawing) or
- a conflict between Inkscape output and Ghostscript
any chance that you test your file with 0.46+devel or 0.47pre? The internal routines/libraries handling ps/pdf (cairo) have been improved and many bugs fixed...

Maybe a misunderstanding
I'm using FreePDF for every program that doesn't support PDF output!
On Inkscape case I'm using it just to avoid to print a page for each test I generate and since it reproduce the problem as the printer. I'm comparing various kind of ouputs Inkscape can produce: comparing then I hope to collect some data to solve the problem.
When I work with Inkscape and I need a print out, I print directly on the printer, of course , now I don't need the PDF output, I know that Inkspace directly support it.
Since the files exported are always ok, I guess i'm point to the print module.

BTW, I will check the document with 0.47pre version.

Thanks

Yes, I misunderstood - (what was I thinking? ;) - and I should have printed your file on paper before posting...

I have several - but different from yours - issues when directly printing your file:
- doesn't honor the page orientation
- when printing as 'vector', only about 5mm at the top (logo upper third), 3mm at the bottom, 3mm around the line beginning with 'Corrente: ', are printed, and some random thin horizontal lines
- when printing as 'bitmap' with 600 dpi there are still large parts (empty horizontal stripes) not printed
both printouts are completely unusable... ?

- using 'Print to File' (in the print dialog) with output format PDF: ok (all objects, page orientation honored)
- using 'Print to File' (in the print dialog) with output format Postscript: page orientation is not respected, otherwise ok

- when printing from 'Print Preview' (pipes PDF output into default PDF Viewer): ok

- Save as PDF: ok (all objects, page orientation honored)
- Save as Postscript: page orientation is not respected, otherwise ok

Overall printing seems highly erratic today - some files print ok, other show missing parts (not objects) like horizontal white/cleaned stripes. I have no answer, sorry, 0.47pre (on OS X) obviously has printing issues too ;(