Hello,

Newbie to this forum, Hi. I’m fairly new to Inkscape; though I have used CorelDraw for several years.

I’m designing a leaflet to be printed in B&W on an Epson mono laser. The design is Landscape and fits A4 page in Inkscape fine but prints with uneven margin (chops 5mm from the bottom of the page and 5mm from the right). I’ve opened a new document and drawn horizontal and vertical lines to fit the page width and height and printed this, result is even margins. So I think I would rule out a printer problem.

My work around at the moment is to shift the whole drawing up and left to compensate, but this is a bit untidy. Am I doing something wrong or is there a setting somewhere which will fix this?

Much appreciate any suggestions for correcting this.

Cheers

Rondell

My understanding is that LASER printers work best with .eps files.

1. First try saving the file as .eps format
2. Install the Ghostscipt for working with .eps files in inkscape
You can get the latest GHOSTSCRIPT and how to set it up from this posting..
https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/118192
3. Then try IMPORTING the .eps (>File >Import) not File open.
4. Try printing again... hopefully this will work.

-vw

Rondell wrote:The design is Landscape and fits A4 page in Inkscape fine but prints with uneven margin (chops 5mm from the bottom of the page and 5mm from the right).

If you use the current stable version (0.47) this might be bug #508529 in Inkscape: “Printing rastered image offsets the page” (happens only when using the "bitmap" rendering backend).

Inkscape 0.46 had a different offset error when printing on Windows platforms, but this was fixed in 0.47 (Bug #373309 in Inkscape: “Print has offset on page”).

Any chance you could attach the SVG file that prints with an offset so others could test it with different printers?

Hi,

I think I'm at fault here. There is a pasted in image (CAD drawing saved as pdf then copied to clipboard) in the leaflet and I see that this is converted to a linked .png and saved in the same directory as the original svg file. With my limited experience with Inkscape and images I have previously printed using the rendering feature, set to 600dpi. So when printing this leaflet I did the same with the resulting annoying offset. Fortunately on a recent (rash!!) test printing I forget to change the print dialogue to bitmap rendering, leaving at the default vector setting, and voila the printing is now in the right place on the page and the image is the high quality I wanted.

So my question now is: Is a .png vector or raster and how should one print an SVG when there is a .png embedded in it.

Cheers

Rondell

Hello,

Please note that when asking a new question you should make closing comments to this post and create a NEW posting, with your new question. This cascading of questions in the same posting makes it difficult for forum users to find entries for your new question..thx

.png .bmp, jpg, .gif .tiff .tga, etc are raster (bitmap) formats. When working with raster images applications like Photoshop ($) and GIMP (Open Source) are for editing raster based graphics.

You'll want to use GIMP instead of inkscape if you are going to be working primarily with images.

-I'll leave the printing query to others..
Thx,
vw