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How can I limit a "save as .wmf" schematic

Postby AnalogueMan » Tue Aug 11, 2015 1:45 am

Hello,
Here a problem which I, despite several trials and errors, cannot solve:
I have drawn a little schematic diagram (see attachment) using a page size which fits it as close as possible (size A7).
Why did I not use a usual size like A4?
Because I want to insert this diagram as a .vmf in a LibreOffice document. When I do this using the standard A4
a large part of the text will be invisible due to the fact that I do not know how to limit the .vmf to the size of the schematic
diagram.
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Re: How can I limit a "save as .wmf" schematic

Postby brynn » Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:21 am

.vmf

Variable Message Format?
Valve Map File?
Valve Material File?
Versatile Media Format?

Knowing what VMF is will help us..... Oh wait - your title says WMF. If it's WMF, that's an image format, and even a vector format! So it shouldn't be too hard to set it to be some particular size.

Probably there's a way to set it's size using SVG/XML (much like you would set the size of an image in.html
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Re: How can I limit a "save as .wmf" schematic

Postby AnalogueMan » Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:39 am

brynn, you are absolutely correct in assuming that I am talking (writing) about a WMF file. How stupid of me overlooking
thing typing error :oops: !
In the meantime I do some tests using your suggestions.
Thanks anyway for your response and help! Will let you know the results tomorrow.
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Re: How can I limit a "save as .wmf" schematic

Postby styxlawyer » Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:59 am

Just joined this forum as I am a new Inkscape user. However I have been a Libre Office/Open Office user for many years. I'm not sure why you think that you need to save as .wmf as LO & OO can both import and scale .svg files correctly. Why introduce an extra step in the process?
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Re: How can I limit a "save as .wmf" schematic

Postby AnalogueMan » Tue Aug 11, 2015 6:17 am

styxlawyer wrote:Just joined this forum as I am a new Inkscape user. However I have been a Libre Office/Open Office user for many years. I'm not sure why you think that you need to save as .wmf as LO & OO can both import and scale .svg files correctly. Why introduce an extra step in the process?


Welcome styxlawyer :) , and I am a inkscape newbee too.
To answer your question: When I insert this schematic diagram as a .svg file in a LO .odt writer document (which I did first),
the quality of the diagram is not good. Especially when observing the symbol for a resistor (that zig-zag one).
The zig-zag lines are not sharp and solid enough. When I transform the .svg file into a .wmf file, all these problems are gone!
Leaving only the question which I started this thread.
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Re: How can I limit a "save as .wmf" schematic

Postby tylerdurden » Tue Aug 11, 2015 6:28 am

Looks pretty good in LO here... maybe it's is a display issue?
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Re: How can I limit a "save as .wmf" schematic

Postby styxlawyer » Tue Aug 11, 2015 6:33 am

Thanks for the welcome. I don't think that you'll get any better result with a .wmf file. There's an online converter here that you can try.
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Re: How can I limit a "save as .wmf" schematic

Postby AnalogueMan » Tue Aug 11, 2015 6:35 am

tylerdurden wrote:Looks pretty good in LO here... maybe it's is a display issue?


But did you PRINT the .odt file and then took a close look?
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Re: How can I limit a "save as .wmf" schematic

Postby tylerdurden » Tue Aug 11, 2015 8:50 am

Print??

People still use paper???

Just kidding, I do some printing.

It looks good here, laser printing to 8.5" X 11" plain paper. Viewed with 40x loupe.

Maybe your LO is rasterizing the print output?
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Re: How can I limit a "save as .wmf" schematic

Postby AnalogueMan » Fri Aug 14, 2015 12:06 am

Hello forum members here an update,
Do not know what the first time went wrong but now, when I am inserting
that .svg which I gave in the attachment, after printing there is nothing wrong with the
quality of the print (especially those resistors) :o . Did several tests after that with other .svg schematics
and still the same good printing results. Little bit strange but anyway I am glad :) .
By the way tylerdurden: looking at your attachment depicting my file in Inkscape, I wonder why the "grids" (those little horizontal
dashed lines" within the pentode symbol are missing :?: . I see that the used font is different but that is normal if one does not have
this particular font (Erica Type) available, but those dashed line should be there....
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Re: How can I limit a "save as .wmf" schematic

Postby tylerdurden » Fri Aug 14, 2015 12:55 am

Ja, that's wierd.

Those lines will not show if I "Insert" the picture, But if I open the svg in Draw and copy/paste into Writer, the lines are there. :?
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Re: How can I limit a "save as .wmf" schematic

Postby styxlawyer » Fri Aug 14, 2015 2:02 am

Works fine for me with Open Office.
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Re: How can I limit a "save as .wmf" schematic

Postby AnalogueMan » Fri Aug 14, 2015 5:31 am

styxlawyer wrote:Works fine for me with Open Office.


But it works also fine for me with LibreOffice! So I do not understand why tylerdurden has this using LO also.
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Re: How can I limit a "save as .wmf" schematic

Postby tylerdurden » Fri Aug 14, 2015 10:39 pm

Opens fine here on a recent version of LO, so it's prob just due to an old LO version on my other computer.
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