9:03 a.m.
Hi all,
I have a 2 page document (an evaluation form), and because spacing was
very important, I used Inkscape instead of LibreOffice, LyX, LaTeX,
etc. This two page document must print on both sides of the paper, so
I'd imagine it must end up as a PDF.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape-pages/ seems to indicate that
I can do this natively in Inkscape by installing a plugin. I'm a little
worried ways that a plugin might affect my normal Inkscape usage.
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Multipage itself indicates that
Inkscape itself doesn't implement multiple pages, because the current
SVG spec doesn't support it.
http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=519 reiterates that
current Inkscape doesn't support multiple pages, and suggests I use two
different Inkscape docs, and desktop publish them with Scribus.
All I really need is a 2 page portrait letter-sized PDF, and I'll
figure out how to print it duplexed. I have no problem with making two
different Inkscape docs. I'm a little concerned about putting
letter-sized SVG's into Scribus or LibreOffice or any other "container".
Anyone have any ideas of the best way for me to make a 2 page PDF out
of one or two Inkscape files?
Thanks,
SteveT
Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
12:16 p.m.
I have future plans to put some multi-page into experimental branch. But
it'll have to pass all sorts of design and peer review, so for now it's
true that inkscape doesn't support multiple pages.
Anyone have any ideas of the best way for me to make a 2 page PDF
out
of one or two Inkscape files?
Make two documents, export/save both documents as separate pdf pages.
Use pdftk to combine them together.
You are right to be wary of importing svg into scribus, although it's
svg renderings are pretty good so if that improved workflow and doesn't
effect the look of the document it might be easier to work in Scribus.
Martin,
4:23 p.m.
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...155...> wrote:
Make two documents, export/save both documents as separate pdf
pages.
Use pdftk to combine them together.
+1 - I do this all the time. eg, 'pdftk page1.pdf page2.pdf cat
output combined.pdf'.
I've also gotten good results exporting to EPS and loading the results
into Scribus - but I also agree you should be wary, esp. if the layout
is complex/weird.
Chris
6:18 p.m.
Why should he be wary of importing svg into scribus? Its something they've
worked hard on being pretty good at in the past, is there something that
doesnt work well? If so can we talk to them rather than issuing vague
ominous warnings, inkscape>scribus via svg has always been a workflow that
was pretty reliable as far as I knew.
Cheers
John
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 4:16 AM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...155...> wrote:
I have future plans to put some multi-page into experimental branch.
But
it'll have to pass all sorts of design and peer review, so for now it's
true that inkscape doesn't support multiple pages.
> Anyone have any ideas of the best way for me to make a 2 page PDF out
> of one or two Inkscape files?
Make two documents, export/save both documents as separate pdf pages.
Use pdftk to combine them together.
You are right to be wary of importing svg into scribus, although it's
svg renderings are pretty good so if that improved workflow and doesn't
effect the look of the document it might be easier to work in Scribus.
Martin,
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7:37 p.m.
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 4:18 AM, John Cliff <john.cliff@...155...> wrote:
Why should he be wary of importing svg into scribus?
I'm wary when importing *anything* into Scribus (or anything else).
It works 95% of the time, but that last 5% can be subtle and weird.
In other words - I've *never* had a problem with PDFs joined with
pdftk. Every once in a while I've had an issue with vectors imported
into Scribus. Don't mean to be ominous or vague, but on a 2-page like
the OP is going for I'd simply export two pages and join them with
pdftk - less room for extra import/export errors ;)
Chris
10:16 p.m.
On Wed, 14 May 2014 10:18:02 +0100
John Cliff <john.cliff@...155...> wrote:
Why should he be wary of importing svg into scribus? Its something
they've worked hard on being pretty good at in the past, is there
something that doesnt work well? If so can we talk to them rather
than issuing vague ominous warnings, inkscape>scribus via svg has
always been a workflow that was pretty reliable as far as I knew.
Cheers
John
Hi John,
When I did the import, no .svg images were listed, and there was no "all
files" choice, so it was impossible to import my .svg images, whether
or not it would have been safe to do so.
SteveT
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Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
10:22 p.m.
New subject: Authoring a multipage document using Inkscape <KLUDGE SOLVED>
On Tue, 13 May 2014 20:03:19 -0400
Steve Litt <slitt@...2357...> wrote:
Hi all,
I have a 2 page document (an evaluation form), and because spacing was
very important, I used Inkscape instead of LibreOffice, LyX, LaTeX,
etc. This two page document must print on both sides of the paper, so
I'd imagine it must end up as a PDF.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape-pages/ seems to indicate that
I can do this natively in Inkscape by installing a plugin. I'm a
little worried ways that a plugin might affect my normal Inkscape
usage.
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Multipage itself indicates
that Inkscape itself doesn't implement multiple pages, because the
current SVG spec doesn't support it.
http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=519 reiterates that
current Inkscape doesn't support multiple pages, and suggests I use
two different Inkscape docs, and desktop publish them with Scribus.
All I really need is a 2 page portrait letter-sized PDF, and I'll
figure out how to print it duplexed. I have no problem with making two
different Inkscape docs. I'm a little concerned about putting
letter-sized SVG's into Scribus or LibreOffice or any other
"container".
Anyone have any ideas of the best way for me to make a 2 page PDF out
of one or two Inkscape files?
So I ended up making a 2 page blank LibreOffice text document, letter
sized, portrait, all four margins set to 0, for which I had to say
"yes" to an "are you sure you want to print outside the printer
margins" question. My .svg files each had a 1/2" margin all the way
around, so the part that printed would be blank anyway.
Then I imported the obverse onto page 1, and the reverse onto page 2,
and each exactly covered the page. I saved it, printed thirty copies
with LibreOffice's printer set to duplex-notumble, and it worked
perfectly.
Ugly, but it did what I needed done :-)
I'll be on the lookout for multipage Inkscape in the years to come.
Thanks for all your suggestions.
SteveT
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