Beginners' Questions I want an image file that is exactly 12 inches wide, by five inches high for my image
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Beginners' Questions I want an image file that is exactly 12 inches wide, by five inches high for my image
Hi Everyone!
Is it too late to jump on this thread, will it boost it to the top?
I'm having a similar problem, but from an even less advanced background.
I finally got everything perfect in Inkscape to make a perfect 'design your own bumper sticker' I want to submit to the website.
I am positively lost, as it will not simply let me save the document as a standard JPEG, TIFF or PNG document.
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I think I finally figured out the way to do this, is to export it and I manually set the page width and height as the desired image size in inches, before seeing that there is actually a dpi and pixel equation that affects the image itself. When I made any adjustment to this, trying to figure it out, it changed the dimensions of the page itself, according to some formula only it knows.
I cannot seem to copy my image in any way that will allow it to be pasted into another document, such as Paint or Word. I can take a screenshot and do it, but this impacts image quality and I don't want to have to start over, trying to refine the image again.
The end goal I'm after is simply this. I want an image file that is exactly 12 inches wide, by five inches high for my image and want about a half inch surrounding the text, for a border.
Can someone help me turn this into a file where the image and dimensions are like this?
I am very confused by this program, it took a long time to figure out what I have.
Thank you so much!!!
To make things even more confusing (I hope this attaches to my last post) I cannot figure out why there are page, drawing, selection and custom tabs, each with their own height in inches and each with differing dpi and pixels. I have no idea what any of this even means, let alone why there are four of them for the same document or how to get the image to the size I want at the maximum possible resolution. I am woefully confused. Can anyone help me understand how to turn this into a 5" x 12" image file, with good resolution?
TYSM!!
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I'll tackle the second question first.
Page, Drawing, Selection and Custom are different ways to decide what's included in your exported graphic file. Maybe this screenshot will help.
In the lower right corner there's a dropdown where you select the exported file type (jpeg, png, tiff, etc.)
Open the document properties dialog with [File > Document Properties...] or [shift+ctrl+d] and go to the [Display] tab. Set measurement units to inches [Format: | (doesn't matter) | in] and then [Width: 5] [Height: 12]. You'll see the page area change on your screen. When you're finished drawing, choose your file type and then [File > Export...] [Single File] [Page] [Export].
Remember that Inkscape can't edit these exported files so always save a native version too with [File > Save] or [File > Save As...] and choose Inkscape SVG as the file type.