Exporting a pdf with an Inkscape generated png
Hi,
I'm using Inkscape to create a book cover that'll be published through Amazon's CreateSpace service. CreateSpace requires a pdf. I can output my Inkscape svg as a beautiful pdf except for one thing: I'm using a few blurs in the book cover and, of course, they don't render correctly. So I thought about outputting the whole cover as a png (which renders everything correctly, including blurs), importing the png back into Inkscape, and then outputting that as a pdf. I figured that, going that route, I'd need the png to be of sufficient size so that it'll print correctly at 300 dpi - since the png is no longer vector. So, is there a way to "tell" the resulting pdf to use my gigantic 2400 x 1575 pixel png but fit it in an 8 x 5.25 inch document?
Thanks,
Matt Jordan
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On 2009-March-18 , at 22:56 , matt@...1296... wrote:
So, is there a way to "tell" the resulting pdf to use my gigantic 2400 x 1575 pixel png but fit it in an 8 x 5.25 inch document?
what OS are you using?
I think you would be better off doing the PNG->PDF part outside of Inkscape. Isn't Gimp able to output PDFs? Otherwise the convert command of ImageMagick surely does and you can control everything (resolution, size) from there.
However, a superior solution would be to make bitmap copies of your blurred objects and to export the resulting file as PDF. This way only the blurs are bitmaps and the rest is still scalable vectors. This is what devel versions of Inkscape do. The "make bitmap copy" command does bitmaps at 90 dpi though, so you need to scale everything up so that, when you scale it down, the bitmap is 300 or 600 dpi.
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On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:42 AM, JiHO <jo.lists@...155...> wrote:
On 2009-March-18 , at 22:56 , matt@...1296... wrote:
So, is there a way to "tell" the resulting pdf to use my gigantic 2400 x 1575 pixel png but fit it in an 8 x 5.25 inch document?
what OS are you using?
I think you would be better off doing the PNG->PDF part outside of Inkscape. Isn't Gimp able to output PDFs? Otherwise the convert command of ImageMagick surely does and you can control everything (resolution, size) from there.
In SVN, you don't need all that. Just export PDF and the filters will be rasterized automatically, at a settable resolution.
However, a superior solution would be to make bitmap copies of your blurred objects and to export the resulting file as PDF. This way only the blurs are bitmaps and the rest is still scalable vectors. This is what devel versions of Inkscape do. The "make bitmap copy" command does bitmaps at 90 dpi though, so you need to scale everything up so that, when you scale it down, the bitmap is 300 or 600 dpi.
The resolution for "make bitmap copy" is also settable in prefs, in the Bitmaps tab.
El Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:56:48 -0500 matt@...1296... escribió:
Hi,
I'm using Inkscape to create a book cover that'll be published through Amazon's CreateSpace service. CreateSpace requires a pdf. I can output my Inkscape svg as a beautiful pdf except for one thing: I'm using a few blurs in the book cover and, of course, they don't render correctly. So I thought about outputting the whole cover as a png (which renders everything correctly, including blurs), importing the png back into Inkscape, and then outputting that as a pdf. I figured that, going that route, I'd need the png to be of sufficient size so that it'll print correctly at 300 dpi - since the png is no longer vector. So, is there a way to "tell" the resulting pdf to use my gigantic 2400 x 1575 pixel png but fit it in an 8 x 5.25 inch document?
if your art is for pre-press I suggest
- export to png 300 dpi (RGB) - open png in gimp (fine editing image here) - use the gimp separate plugin to make a cmyk image - save as cmyk tif with separate - import cmyk in scribus - export fine-tuning prepress pdf from scribus
saludos!
Thanks,
Matt Jordan
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