On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:18:08AM +0200, jiho wrote:
On 2007-May-21 , at 04:13 , Kat Tanaka Okopnik wrote:
If I understand this correctly, for my purposes, saving to something like .png and converting, or saving to .eps, are better options...
Yes?
No ;). If you want PDFs which are real PDFs (i.e. with the elements you draw in Inkscape that stay vectors) with included images at 300dpi you should follow the advice of Horvath Andras in an earlier email: tweak your raster images *before* importing them in Inkscape so that they have their final size and a 300dpi resolution, import them in your Inkscape document, scale them to their correct size (when Inkscape imports images, it scales them so that they have 90dpi resolution, so you 300 dpi images will appear very large and you have to scale them down to their real size to have them at 300dpi), draw whatever you want to draw, and then export the whole drawing to PDF directly in Inkscape.
I just created a test document with only text, and saved it to "CairoPDF" (I'm running Inkscape 0.45+devel, built May 18 2007). When I view the resulting .pdf file using Xpdf, the letters with no curves appear fine, but the curves are all badly aliased - no matter what magnification I view it at.
What am I missing here?
Just to be sure that this is what you need, what do you want to use these PDFs for?
Occasionally I have clients who need last-minute printing (i.e. finished at 3am, printed by morning) and thus those files end up going to Kinko's. Unfortunately, Kinko's prefers to have images prepped as .pdf, and thus the necessity of a 300dpi file...