Hi, in our company we use Inkscape to do our designs (Business cards and Employee´s badges). The company in charge of printing the cards are requesting vector or Illustrator format ... of course we want the best representation of our designs, I've read about 'missing lines' and color replacement when exporting ... any suggestions?

Thanks,
ATARI

Hi.

Illustrator can read svg-s quite well.
There are some differences between the illustrator and inkscape svg-s, like the handling of the layers -which feature is out of the svg specification- but for printing it should not matter at all.

By saving as pdf, you get a more solid file, though there are parts mishandled mostly related to complicated masking to my experience.
Also, that option rasterizes all the filters used, that may cause troubles as well.

Some printers may ask for an eps, which in inkscape is implemente worse -no transparencies and gradients to be used.


All in all, svg-s would preserve your design the best and if they accept it, there is no point in saving as pdf.
Though if you are about to make designs where colour matching is really important, it's another story of rgb vs. cmyk.

Good luck!