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=== Adding fill to Shapes drawn with the Calligraphic Pen tool === | === Adding fill to Shapes drawn with the Calligraphic Pen tool === | ||
Quick tut on how to add fill to shapes you've drawn with the calligraphic pen. | Quick tut on how to add fill to shapes you've drawn with the calligraphic pen. | ||
Please reupload tut on this topic --[[User:GigaClon|GigaClon]] 20:42, 19 June 2006 (PDT) | |||
=== Printing or Producing PDFs in ISO A4 rather than US Specific Letter Paper === | === Printing or Producing PDFs in ISO A4 rather than US Specific Letter Paper === | ||
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I've been messing with this for ages, and as it turns out it's got a very simple solution (much easier than emailing your SVG to a friend with Illustrator ;-). | I've been messing with this for ages, and as it turns out it's got a very simple solution (much easier than emailing your SVG to a friend with Illustrator ;-). | ||
With Inkscape 0.42, if you create an A4 canvas and print it, it will quite happily print properly on an A4 printer. It'll even produce suitable | With Inkscape 0.42, if you create an A4 canvas and print it, it will quite happily print properly on an A4 printer. It'll even produce suitable PostScript too. However, if you produce a PDF (either by Save As... or by using the command line ps2pdf or by using Adobe Acrobat) you'll always get a US Letter PDF. I think this is because the PostScript doesn't mandate A4 or suggests Letter, after all, most .ps files will convert perfectly like this. However, you can force ps2pdf to use A4, although sadly not in Inkscape. Do it on the command line after printing PostScript to a file: | ||
ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 myfile.ps | ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 myfile.ps | ||
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[http://www.coofercat.com/wiki/InkScape ...Coofer Cat] | [http://www.coofercat.com/wiki/InkScape ...Coofer Cat] | ||
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Revision as of 03:42, 20 June 2006
Generic tricks and tips
The tips and tricks are collected to share/tutorials/tipsandtricks.svg and made apart of the release. If you want to contribute further, please add your tips and tricks to the SVN copy of the aforementioned. Also, you can add them below and they will be collected from time to time as a part of that tutorial.
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Adding fill to Shapes drawn with the Calligraphic Pen tool
Quick tut on how to add fill to shapes you've drawn with the calligraphic pen. Please reupload tut on this topic --GigaClon 20:42, 19 June 2006 (PDT)
Printing or Producing PDFs in ISO A4 rather than US Specific Letter Paper
I've been messing with this for ages, and as it turns out it's got a very simple solution (much easier than emailing your SVG to a friend with Illustrator ;-).
With Inkscape 0.42, if you create an A4 canvas and print it, it will quite happily print properly on an A4 printer. It'll even produce suitable PostScript too. However, if you produce a PDF (either by Save As... or by using the command line ps2pdf or by using Adobe Acrobat) you'll always get a US Letter PDF. I think this is because the PostScript doesn't mandate A4 or suggests Letter, after all, most .ps files will convert perfectly like this. However, you can force ps2pdf to use A4, although sadly not in Inkscape. Do it on the command line after printing PostScript to a file:
ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 myfile.ps
(it'll produce myfile.pdf, which should be an A4 PDF rather than the default Letter).
Hopefully one day, Inkscape will have a dialogue asking you what paper size you'd like when it produced PDFs (much like saving .eps asks you a couple of things). After all, Inkscape just uses ps2pdf to produce PDFs anyway, so it ought to be able to pass in the paper size specification when it does so.