I've been having a devil of a time getting Inkscape to export PDFs cleanly and there don't seem to be very many answers out there on all the various wikis and tutorials. In particular, transparencies are a bit of a crap-shoot - sometimes the transparency will disappear and sometimes it'll be made into a solid block. I've tried fiddling with the save-as-PDF settings in Inkscape and I've tried printing to a PDF using CutePDF with less than satisfactory results. Is there some method of exporting my file - or some method of creating my file - that I can use to get predictable results? Inkscape (v.0.91) supports, and that is how I prefer to do it: inkscape -file=mySVGinputFile.svg -export-area-drawing -without-gui -export-pdf=output.pdf This is actually the command that uses to prepare SVG images for use in LaTeX. I have used to generate SVG, which then goes into PDF.

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Here's a screenshot of the SVG in inkscape, which has pure vectorial representation (including fonts). Here's a screenshot of the PDF zoomed in, with a selection of the text 'oo' from the word loop, showing that it's still text in the PDF.

I love using Inkscape to draw - it is much more intuitive than Illustrator and produces very professional results. I used Inkscape to prepare figures for publication, however, and had significant difficulty exporting the figures with publication quality settings. Saving files as.eps did not properly embed my fonts and.pdf did not allow me to save with press quality.

(I am using Windows XP and Inkscape Version 0.48.4.) To get around this, I followed the directions for producing press quality figures found at Click on 'PC Applications PDF Creation Guide'. These step by step instructions show you how to print to a pdf with embedded text and press quality settings. I did have difficulty printing to pdf for some of my larger figures (only random portions of my figure would end up in the pdf, which was very frustrating!). To circumvent this problem I grouped all aspects of my Inkscape figure and shrank down the overall size. For some reason this worked really well and I obtained nice looking pdfs for these figures. Another option is to cut the figure in half (if possible) and print two pdfs. These can be combined in Adobe Acrobat Professional (older versions are available for download at ).

Click on 'Create PDF' Choose 'From Multiple Files' and select the pdfs you want to combine. These will show up as individual pages in the pdf document. To combine them to a single page go to 'File - Print' Under 'Page Handling' change 'Page Scaling' to 'Multiple pages per sheet' Then you can customize how many pages you want per sheet. Click OK and your two pdfs will now be combined into a single page. I hope this information is of help to those of you with strict requirements for publication quality figures. It’s been years since I had any problems with transparency of Inkscape-generated PDFs and if I had, those turned out to be a problem of the PDF viewer (or in one case: of an esoteric printer), not of Inkscape. Thus I would say that using a new version of Inkscape should fix such issues.

Inkscape Text Tutorial Pdf

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That being said, since Inkscape 0.47 (from 2009), there is the option Rasterise Filter Effects for PDF export, which should rasterise all those filters (for example blur) that are not supported by the PDF format and keep everything else vectorised.