Exporting Inkscape SVG to Corel and other apps
Greetings I made a logo for a client who lives in other city. I'm sending him the source vectors for him to print and work the logo there, so I need to be sure about Inkscape SVG support in other apps. The logo is all paths and includes a shadow (blur effect). Will my file be successfully opened in Corel, and also Illustrator? Will it keep the blur? Please help on this.
2008/6/18 Ocetalo <zelus.et.radix@...155...>:
Greetings I made a logo for a client who lives in other city. I'm sending him the source vectors for him to print and work the logo there, so I need to be sure about Inkscape SVG support in other apps. The logo is all paths and includes a shadow (blur effect). Will my file be successfully opened in Corel, and also Illustrator? Will it keep the blur? Please help on this.
Although I don't use Inkscape professionally, in my work I have to be able to send data for others to use in neutral formats. I have found that you can never guarntee what they will do with the data. Therefore, I have got into the habit of sending the data in multiple formats, including derived view only ones such as png and pdf. This way, when they load the data into their system, they have a visual clue as to how complete the import has been.
Regards, Philip.
Although I don't use Inkscape professionally, in my work I have to be able to send data for others to use in neutral formats. I have found that you can never guarntee what they will do with the data. Therefore, I have got into the habit of sending the data in multiple formats, including derived view only ones such as png and pdf. This way, when they load the data into their system, they have a visual clue as to how complete the import has been.
View only formats won't work. My client needs the logo in scalable format because it's to be used for printing in both small and large formats. I tried opening the logo with Corel and Illustrator. Mostly fine, but blur effect is lost. I can apply gaussian blur or something in any of those apps but will it work when I'm back to inkscape? I need advice about compatibility, otherwise I won't be able to use Inkscape professionally due to every people in this place use only Corel or Illustrator.
On 6/18/08, Philip Stubbs <philip@...2526...> wrote:
2008/6/18 Ocetalo <zelus.et.radix@...155...>:
Greetings I made a logo for a client who lives in other city. I'm sending him the source vectors for him to print and work the logo there, so I need to be sure about Inkscape SVG support in other apps. The logo is all paths and includes a shadow (blur effect). Will my file be successfully opened in Corel, and also Illustrator? Will it keep the blur? Please help on this.
Although I don't use Inkscape professionally, in my work I have to be able to send data for others to use in neutral formats. I have found that you can never guarntee what they will do with the data. Therefore, I have got into the habit of sending the data in multiple formats, including derived view only ones such as png and pdf. This way, when they load the data into their system, they have a visual clue as to how complete the import has been.
Regards, Philip.
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View only formats won't work. My client needs the logo in scalable format because it's to be used for printing in both small and large formats. I tried opening the logo with Corel and Illustrator. Mostly fine, but blur effect is lost. I can apply gaussian blur or something in any of those apps but will it work when I'm back to inkscape? I need advice about compatibility, otherwise I won't be able to use Inkscape professionally due to every people in this place use only Corel or Illustrator.
how about filing bugs at Corel or Adobe if their SVG import is broken? Obviously it is broken if it doesn't look the same as in Inkscape.
SVG is more and more both an exchange and a standard web-graphics format. Commercial vendors need to support SVG properly.
As an short-time alternative you may try the PDF format. At least the newer versions of Adobe Illustrator import PDF documents fine. I don't know about the drop-shadow/blur, though. This is probably rasterized by Inkscape at a certain resolution.
Andreas
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how about filing bugs at Corel or Adobe if their SVG import is broken? Obviously it is broken if it doesn't look the same as in Inkscape.
I sure could, but I have no Corel or Adobe. Despite I know how to make those changes, I have to pay somebody else to do them for me.
SVG is more and more both an exchange and a standard web-graphics format. Commercial vendors need to support SVG properly.
As an short-time alternative you may try the PDF format. At least the newer versions of Adobe Illustrator import PDF documents fine. I don't know about the drop-shadow/blur, though. This is probably rasterized by Inkscape at a certain resolution.
Is the PDF format fully scalable? I had no idea.
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann@...2251...> wrote:
View only formats won't work. My client needs the logo in scalable format because it's to be used for printing in both small and large formats. I tried opening the logo with Corel and Illustrator. Mostly fine, but blur effect is lost. I can apply gaussian blur or something in any of those apps but will it work when I'm back to inkscape? I need advice about compatibility, otherwise I won't be able to use Inkscape professionally due to every people in this place use only Corel or Illustrator.
how about filing bugs at Corel or Adobe if their SVG import is broken? Obviously it is broken if it doesn't look the same as in Inkscape.
SVG is more and more both an exchange and a standard web-graphics format. Commercial vendors need to support SVG properly.
As an short-time alternative you may try the PDF format. At least the newer versions of Adobe Illustrator import PDF documents fine. I don't know about the drop-shadow/blur, though. This is probably rasterized by Inkscape at a certain resolution.
Andreas
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As an short-time alternative you may try the PDF format. At least the newer versions of Adobe Illustrator import PDF documents fine. I don't know about the drop-shadow/blur, though. This is probably rasterized by Inkscape at a certain resolution.
Is the PDF format fully scalable? I had no idea.
yes, PDF is vector based, and as such scalable.
The only problem is, that Inkscape might export some special effects to raster if PDF doesn't offer a mechanism to do this effect in vector.
Also, PDF text is often not very easy to edit after it was created, esp. if the PDF exporter uses kerning.
Other than that, PDF is vector-based and the preferred format currently for professional printing.
Andreas
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