This is a read-only archive of the inkscapeforum.com site. You can search for info here or post new questions and comments at I have an engineering drawing which is a mixture of line widths, types (e.g. dashed, dotted), colours and opacities and various symbols and figures similarly varied.
When I send it to a fully functional colour printer I only get part of the drawing printed.
If I import the svg file into Gimp and print it I get a lot more of the drawing but not everything as Gimp sometimes blacks out bits and pieces for some reason.
Surely someone has had this problem before but I cannot find it in the forums. I would have expected that the print function would be fully functional?
Thank you!
(by the way there are no opacities less than 30%)
Print a drawing
Re: Print a drawing
Hello,
There are some problems with the print function of Inkscape in its current version (0.48).
- One option is using a virtual pdf printer as Bullzip PDF, PDF creator, or Foxit Pdf. But You have to configure the size of the page, and maybe some of your paths may will be printed as raster entities.
- Other option is exporting in a PNG of high resolution (300dpi maybe?)
- Othe option is "Save a Copy" as a DXF drawing, but again, maybe some entities will not print.
- Other option is importing the SVG to an Open Office program.
- Or try to open the SVG en Adobe Illustrator and once in there print .
- Try the 0.49 version ... I don't know if there are improvings relative to printing the SVG.
- Why use opacity in a technical illustration? guessing: For colors of the walls? In that case, put the opacity to 100%, but change the clarity of the color.
Could you upload your file to see if there is other workaround?
There are some problems with the print function of Inkscape in its current version (0.48).
- One option is using a virtual pdf printer as Bullzip PDF, PDF creator, or Foxit Pdf. But You have to configure the size of the page, and maybe some of your paths may will be printed as raster entities.
- Other option is exporting in a PNG of high resolution (300dpi maybe?)
- Othe option is "Save a Copy" as a DXF drawing, but again, maybe some entities will not print.
- Other option is importing the SVG to an Open Office program.
- Or try to open the SVG en Adobe Illustrator and once in there print .
- Try the 0.49 version ... I don't know if there are improvings relative to printing the SVG.
- Why use opacity in a technical illustration? guessing: For colors of the walls? In that case, put the opacity to 100%, but change the clarity of the color.
Could you upload your file to see if there is other workaround?
If you have problems:
1.- Post a sample (or samples) of your file please.
2.- Please check here:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/index.html
3.- If you manage to solve your problem, please post here your solution.
1.- Post a sample (or samples) of your file please.
2.- Please check here:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/index.html
3.- If you manage to solve your problem, please post here your solution.
Re: Print a drawing
Wondering how you imported the svg-s to gimp.
To my knowledge paths as vectors have a different function there -to taper a brush along them for example-.
So by importing them there as they are, the svg may have changed to raster layers with a fixed resolution?
For technical drawing I wouldn't suggest printing from a raster format.
You would need an incredibly large file to have a decent print.
So my suggestion is to save as pdf -that will remain vector instead of pdf made with pdfprinters.
Open it with a pdf viewer, and print from there.
To my knowledge paths as vectors have a different function there -to taper a brush along them for example-.
So by importing them there as they are, the svg may have changed to raster layers with a fixed resolution?
For technical drawing I wouldn't suggest printing from a raster format.
You would need an incredibly large file to have a decent print.
So my suggestion is to save as pdf -that will remain vector instead of pdf made with pdfprinters.
Open it with a pdf viewer, and print from there.