No problem on the export thingy, I'd looked for it some time back and couldn't find it. So I thought I just missed it.

The PDF issue is apparently resolved, my friend can't remember exactly what it was she was doing that caused problems. I chalk all of that up to the "learning curve".

We seem to have the issues either solved or workarounds figured out, and she's not as frustrated now. Her first project, very simple, turned out really nice, and now she's tweaking it. LOL

Not being "end-to-end" is an issue where it seems most open source projects have some catching up to do. Plus bugs, which is why I finally gave up on Libre Office. I think that's frustrating for many new uses of open source software that are used to more options instead of having to go to extra work to do the additional converting.

My 2 pet peeves with Inkscape on this Mac are what I suspect is a normal Linux file explorer and open/save dialogs, and highlighted text is white letters on yellow background, almost impossible to see. Oh, and greyed out text is all but invisible.

Maybe there are settings for that, I haven't had time to look.

Ken

My 2 pet b

On 8/26/14 10:29 AM, Donn Ingle wrote:

When I said export jpg, I meant export png and then convert those to
jpg. Sorry, I'm used to the process and on Linux it's a simple convert
command.

For PDF files that are missing the effects, look to the dialog that
opens when you save to pdf format. There's a tick box there that tells
it to make images (bitmaps) of everything with effects. If you have it
off, they will be missing in the pdf. (With that option enabled, the
PDF produced is not pure vector because of all the bitmaps mixed-in.)

All in all, Inkscape is not quite end-to-end and you'll need to
supplement your process with other software and make some compromises.

Good  luck.
/d

On 26 August 2014 17:56, Ken Springer <snowshed1@...3003...> wrote:

I was beginning to suspect the other vector formats do not support some
of the features of SVG.  I ran into similar issues 20 or so years ago
with vector file formats.

The special effects did not work for her in her PDF file, but it did for
me.  I find out if that option is turned on in her Inkscape install.

It looks like Inkscape doesn't export/save jpg files.  :-(  Hope that's
remedied in the next version.  We've discovered that PNG is not always
the best file format.  What bothers me most about the format is the
sheer size, since it's lossless, just like TIFF.


Ken


On 8/26/14 1:11 AM, Donn wrote:

On 26/08/2014 03:59, Ken Springer wrote:

but now that she's found some of
the special effects, she's off and running.

This sounds like a problem.

Generally, the "special effects" (Filters menu) will not survive the
journey *out* of SVG.

In the PDF export screen there's the option to turn the filters into
bitmaps - that's the only way those effects make it through. (This can
make the file rather large - depending on the size of your drawing and
the number of parts that are effects.)

I think exporting a range of jpg files in various sizes will work best
for you.


/d

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