I'm working in Inkscape to produce some scientific graphs for my PhD. These need to look professional and this problem is making my graphs unsuitable for publication.
I make the initial graphs in R then save as a pdf to import into Inkscape to edit their overall aesthetics. Normally R makes the graphs too wide and when I try to make them thinner in Inkscape the line gets distortted into a ribbon-like shape. I've seen some people describe it as a caligraphy effect. I have tried EVERYTHING that I've been able to find online to mitigate this situation and nothing works. I've turned off scale stroke width and the line width is still inconsistent. I've tried optimized and preserved settings under Transform in preferences. I've tried scaling on the Transform tab, including increasing by 300% and then reducing by 33.33%.
I read that it's due to scaling the size of a group and ideally I need to be able to scale the graphs with their scale bars but it's still occuring even when I just try to scale the single line on its own.
Yes - this is coming from scaling as a group. You can selected separate paths and scale them together without grouping:
If you want to maintain the style but don´t want to connect end nodes you can go Path->Combine to treat them as one single path for instance - no need for grouping.
It's still occuring even when nothing is grouped. My lines are not groups themselves. It's still inconsistently altering the thickness of my line and adding a ribbon-effect, even when the stroke still says it's the same thickness.
Beyond the Basics Scaling line width without thickness distortions
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I'm working in Inkscape to produce some scientific graphs for my PhD. These need to look professional and this problem is making my graphs unsuitable for publication.
I make the initial graphs in R then save as a pdf to import into Inkscape to edit their overall aesthetics. Normally R makes the graphs too wide and when I try to make them thinner in Inkscape the line gets distortted into a ribbon-like shape. I've seen some people describe it as a caligraphy effect. I have tried EVERYTHING that I've been able to find online to mitigate this situation and nothing works. I've turned off scale stroke width and the line width is still inconsistent. I've tried optimized and preserved settings under Transform in preferences. I've tried scaling on the Transform tab, including increasing by 300% and then reducing by 33.33%.
I read that it's due to scaling the size of a group and ideally I need to be able to scale the graphs with their scale bars but it's still occuring even when I just try to scale the single line on its own.
I cannot get anything to work!
Yes - this is coming from scaling as a group. You can selected separate paths and scale them together without grouping:
If you want to maintain the style but don´t want to connect end nodes you can go Path->Combine to treat them as one single path for instance - no need for grouping.
It's still occuring even when nothing is grouped. My lines are not groups themselves. It's still inconsistently altering the thickness of my line and adding a ribbon-effect, even when the stroke still says it's the same thickness.
It´s kind of a group because it´s using a clipping path to whatever reason. Get rid of the clipping path and try again.
Amazing thank you! That finally works!!