I could not find these changes in the docs so I'm guessing (as the time I'm writing this) that the docs have yet to catch up.įWIW: It appears this new approach is meant to simplify the command line a bit. For example, if I had the SVG file pizza.svg and I want to convert it to the PDF pizza.pdf, I would use the following: inkscape pizza.svg -export-area-drawing -without-gui -export-file=pizza.pdf Where I've used the brackets here to indicate the parts you'll want to change for your use.

As such, usage for the 1.0 beta version is: inkscape I hope this information is of help to those of you with strict requirements for publication quality figures.Īs of Inkscape 1.0beta2, some of the command line arguments have changed. Click OK and your 2 PDFs will now be combined into a single page. Then you can customize how many pages you want per sheet. Under Page Handling change Page Scaling to Multiple pages per sheet. To combine them to a single page go to File -> Print These will show up as individual pages in the pdf document. These can be combined in Adobe Acrobat Professional (older versions are available for download at this link.Ĭlick on 'Create PDF', Choose 'From Multiple Files' and select the pdfs you want to combine. For some reason this worked really well and I obtained nice looking pdfs for these figures.Īnother option is to cut the figure in half (if possible) and print two pdfs. To circumvent this problem I grouped all aspects of my Inkscape figure and shrank down the overall size. 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!). These step by step instructions show you how to print to a PDF with embedded text and press quality settings. To get around this, I followed the directions for producing press quality figures found at this link. (I am using Windows XP and Inkscape Version 0.48.4.)

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

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