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If this is an ignorant question, I apologize; I did try to search for an answer first. Thanks for the help!
Save as PDF - page size
Re: Save as PDF - page size
Howdy Room101,
How about you set the document properties to US letter? You may have to rescale your objects to the scale of the document, but that should do the trick. You can now easily save it as .pdf for further editing in prepress software that can handle CMYK a bit better if you need it for that. Scribus is open source freeware that does a good job on that. I myself use Coreldraw for converting RGB to CMYK colorspace and checking the result in the color separation view.
Never mind the pixel displayed as Inkscape creates vector drawings. Vector drawings are calculated lines and therefore resolution independent. Only if you import bitmap images into your Inkscape documents you'll have to check their resolution.
* Tip,.. When using bitmaps in the document.
Use a low resolution bitmap for the design and work and LINK it rather than EMBED the bitmap. That way you can replace the bitmap by a high resolution one AFTER you finished the design stage and you can work much faster while designing as the computer doesn't have to toss around and do calculations on Megabytes of bitmap data all the time.
How about you set the document properties to US letter? You may have to rescale your objects to the scale of the document, but that should do the trick. You can now easily save it as .pdf for further editing in prepress software that can handle CMYK a bit better if you need it for that. Scribus is open source freeware that does a good job on that. I myself use Coreldraw for converting RGB to CMYK colorspace and checking the result in the color separation view.
Never mind the pixel displayed as Inkscape creates vector drawings. Vector drawings are calculated lines and therefore resolution independent. Only if you import bitmap images into your Inkscape documents you'll have to check their resolution.
* Tip,.. When using bitmaps in the document.
Use a low resolution bitmap for the design and work and LINK it rather than EMBED the bitmap. That way you can replace the bitmap by a high resolution one AFTER you finished the design stage and you can work much faster while designing as the computer doesn't have to toss around and do calculations on Megabytes of bitmap data all the time.