Thank you for your help with Inkscape questions... I would like to introduce Inkscape to 4-5 students who love to draw. In order to help them, I have to have things worked out so that there are no problems. Kids love to show their work so I need to work out some printing problems.
I want to print custom sized documents (24 to 40 inches long x 8.5 inches wide in either landscape or portriat) from Inkscape, using an HP Deskjet printer and banner paper, but I can not get a continuous print-out of the document. I have every setting that I can find in both the application and the printer set-up to print on continous, banner paper with no result (first page prints then everything comes to a stop).
Does Inkscape have some sort of limit to printable size? I would image that there are a lot of you out there drawing and printing to custom sized paper some incredible drawings and other art work. Would you recommend not printing from Inkscape? If so, what are your suggestions and/or workarounds?
Your help and suggestions are greatly appreciated.
jt
In my search for an answer, I read that the application settings overrule the printer setting. Readers, do you agree? This would tell me that my settings in Inkscape are "overruling" the printer settings.
Inkscape can print custom sizes, can't it?
Thank you for your continuing help.. my stdents send their "Thank you" also.
jt wrote:
Thank you for your help with Inkscape questions... I would like to introduce Inkscape to 4-5 students who love to draw. In order to help them, I have to have things worked out so that there are no problems. Kids love to show their work so I need to work out some printing problems.
I want to print custom sized documents (24 to 40 inches long x 8.5 inches wide in either landscape or portriat) from Inkscape, using an HP Deskjet printer and banner paper, but I can not get a continuous print-out of the document. I have every setting that I can find in both the application and the printer set-up to print on continous, banner paper with no result (first page prints then everything comes to a stop).
Does Inkscape have some sort of limit to printable size? I would image that there are a lot of you out there drawing and printing to custom sized paper some incredible drawings and other art work. Would you recommend not printing from Inkscape? If so, what are your suggestions and/or workarounds?
Your help and suggestions are greatly appreciated.
jt
In my search for an answer, I read that the application settings overrule the printer setting. Readers, do you agree? This would tell me that my settings in Inkscape are "overruling" the printer settings.
Inkscape can print custom sizes, can't it?
I believe the default is to print at the document size. What size is the document you're trying to print?
Michael, I am trying to print banners approx. 24 to 40 inches long by 8.5 inches wide in either landscape or portrait orientation on continous paper. I would like to get my document on continous paper so that I don't have to cut and tape the thing together.
Up to this point, the first page prints but then everything stops as though the print job was completed. So if the document was 4 sheets long, I would get the first page printed only.
Any advise?
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In my search for an answer, I read that the application settings overrule the printer setting. Readers, do you agree? This would tell me that my settings in Inkscape are "overruling" the printer settings.
Inkscape can print custom sizes, can't it?
I believe the default is to print at the document size. What size is the document you're trying to print?
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Michael, I am trying to print banners approx. 24 to 40 inches long by 8.5 inches wide in either landscape or portrait orientation on continous paper. I would like to get my document on continous paper so that I don't have to cut and tape the thing together.
Up to this point, the first page prints but then everything stops as though the print job was completed. So if the document was 4 sheets long, I would get the first page printed only.
Any advise?
Inkscape doesn't support multi-page documents, so that might mean it's not going to work for you.
What I'd try first though is to make sure that your document size is the same size as your drawing. The Inkscape canvas goes FAR beyond the edges of the document, but printing is done based on the edges of the document. You can specify a custom document size in File-->Document Properties
On Linux and OSX at least, Inkscape creates a PostScript file, and sends it to the printer. I think it's the same thing on Windows, but I don't know. Assuming it's the same, Inkscape is going to create a PostScript file that is 24x8.5 inches (or document sized), and send that to the printer. If your printer handle that size PS file, it may just accept the first page worth, and print that.
Can your printer print banners in other programs?
That's just my two cents. I haven't worked with printing on Windows enough to say for sure.
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 02:45:15PM -0600, Michael Moore wrote:
What I'd try first though is to make sure that your document size is the same size as your drawing. The Inkscape canvas goes FAR beyond the edges of the document, but printing is done based on the edges of the document. You can specify a custom document size in File-->Document Properties
This is definitly the first step.
On Linux and OSX at least, Inkscape creates a PostScript file, and sends it to the printer. I think it's the same thing on Windows, but I don't know.
When I was doing programming under Windows (a few years ago) you used the same abstract API for drawing to both the screen and printer. This enabled Windows to work with printers that worked very differently from the postscript model. It also means that different printers would generate different output for the same input, but never mind.
In response to the OP, you could try exporting the SVG as a PDF (or as a postscript or EPS file then using Acrobat Distiller or Ghostscript to convert the resulting file to a PDF) then use Acrobat reader to print the resulting file. This still relies on Windows being able to drive the printer correctly though but it would no longer be up to Inkscape to put the drivers into the "correct" state.
Sam
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