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New to inkscape. Trying to save some text as optimized svg. However, the letters are all over the place when I view the svg. Any thoughts?
SVG attached
Thank you!
Garbled letters when exported to svg
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jcinkscaper
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Garbled letters when exported to svg
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Re: Garbled letters when exported to svg
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The file you attached only contains paths, not Text objects. Is this the optimized file? Can you attach the original one so we can try ourselves and see if it goes wrong? Or maybe share more details about what objects you're creating and what the symptoms are.
The file you attached only contains paths, not Text objects. Is this the optimized file? Can you attach the original one so we can try ourselves and see if it goes wrong? Or maybe share more details about what objects you're creating and what the symptoms are.
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Re: Garbled letters when exported to svg
Sure. I added a text object with text "abcdefg". I selected the object and chose object to path. I then went to document properties and resized page to content. Lastly, I clicked save a copy and chose optimized svg. The letters are scrambled and in random locations.
I'm attaching an inkscape svg of the project. Also attaching a png of what the result looks like.
Thanks
I'm attaching an inkscape svg of the project. Also attaching a png of what the result looks like.
Thanks
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Re: Garbled letters when exported to svg
I'm getting correct output in Optimized SVG.
It could be your preferences, or the Optimize settings. Can you share what you had chosen there?
It could be your preferences, or the Optimize settings. Can you share what you had chosen there?
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Re: Garbled letters when exported to svg
Probably the precision value is set too low (it could be 1). Can you change the precision to a higher value (e.g. 5) and see what you get?
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Re: Garbled letters when exported to svg
(that is, in the export dialog for saving as optimized SVG)
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jcinkscaper
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Re: Garbled letters when exported to svg
Hi All,
Here are the current Optimizes SVG Output settings:
Here are the current Optimizes SVG Output settings:
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Re: Garbled letters when exported to svg
As Moini suggested, the problem appears to be the "Number of significant digits for coords" value being too low.
This value rounds the coordinates in your file to the specified number of significant digits - so if you have this set to "1" it means a coordinate of 1.49 will get converted to 1, whilst 1.5 will be changed to 2. This can result in individual nodes being moved around quite a lot - especially in paths, where the values are often relative to the previous point, leading to cumulative errors.
Change that value to 5 and try again. If that works okay, try reducing it to 4 or 3 if you want, and see how that looks. Basically you're trading file size for accuracy, and below a certain point the loss of accuracy will become too great.
This value rounds the coordinates in your file to the specified number of significant digits - so if you have this set to "1" it means a coordinate of 1.49 will get converted to 1, whilst 1.5 will be changed to 2. This can result in individual nodes being moved around quite a lot - especially in paths, where the values are often relative to the previous point, leading to cumulative errors.
Change that value to 5 and try again. If that works okay, try reducing it to 4 or 3 if you want, and see how that looks. Basically you're trading file size for accuracy, and below a certain point the loss of accuracy will become too great.
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jcinkscaper
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Re: Garbled letters when exported to svg
That was it. Thank you very much.