On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Drechsel Wolf <edv-e@...2249...> wrote:
As I want to print a self-made map with a scan in the background, the "bitmap" option seems reasonalble to me. But lowering the resolution doesnt make any difference, files are as big as they are when I leave the "rendering" tab set to "vector".
It's (probably) the raster background. Try this: 1. New document 2. Fill with a nice, big scribble ;) 3. Print to file with 'vector' rendering 4. Print to file with 'bitmap' rendering 5. Compare the output files.
I printed from Inkscape 0.48, Ubuntu 10.10 - chose output format as PDF (from PDF, PS, SVG as choices), and there is a marked difference in file size. Since you have a raster image as a background, you'll not see much filesize difference. I would print with 'vector' rendering myself - it keeps the vector information on top of the raster background (you might notice on a laser printer, eg).
Chris