I'm creating sewing patterns with Inkscape. The pattern is tiled to 7x10" to be printed on A4 and Letter paper. Once printed, the borders need to be trimmed and then the tiles can be pieced together.
I added a rectangle within the page borders to act as a guide for trimming the paper. However, the edges don't save properly as a PDF. They look extremely thin on the page edges, and on A4 some don't show up at all. The stroke is .013 which appears fine on the top and left edges, but the right and bottom edges are almost nonexistent.
I've attached the files below, but I've triple checked that the rectangles are within the page border - they should be saving correctly? I could make the rectangles even smaller than the page borders, but that will require an entire overhaul of the pattern itself, and I'll need to splice all the pieces to fit them into those new boundaries.
Inkscape 1.2.2 (732a01da63, 2022-12-09)
.msi installer
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz 3.20 GHz
64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Running Windows 10 Education ver 21H2
Apologies if I didn't include the right info, I'm not very tech savvy.
You should use and abuse of clones for this kind of job. I attached a modified file where I grouped the different parts of the design (use objects panel : ctrl+ shift + L).
For example, in Frame group, you find the original Frame path and all of its clones. You just have to edit Frame path and all clones follow (I turned its stroke to green to see more clearly). Not happy with green : turn all strokes to black again in one go : no exhausting work.
Beyond the Basics Contents on SVG page getting cropped as a PDF
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I'm creating sewing patterns with Inkscape. The pattern is tiled to 7x10" to be printed on A4 and Letter paper. Once printed, the borders need to be trimmed and then the tiles can be pieced together.
I added a rectangle within the page borders to act as a guide for trimming the paper. However, the edges don't save properly as a PDF. They look extremely thin on the page edges, and on A4 some don't show up at all. The stroke is .013 which appears fine on the top and left edges, but the right and bottom edges are almost nonexistent.
I've attached the files below, but I've triple checked that the rectangles are within the page border - they should be saving correctly? I could make the rectangles even smaller than the page borders, but that will require an entire overhaul of the pattern itself, and I'll need to splice all the pieces to fit them into those new boundaries.
Inkscape 1.2.2 (732a01da63, 2022-12-09)
.msi installer
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz 3.20 GHz
64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Running Windows 10 Education ver 21H2
Apologies if I didn't include the right info, I'm not very tech savvy.
How it appears on SVG, within page borders
How it saves (thick line is missing on some).
Hello
Here, with inkscape, 1.4 it works fine, to me.
You should use and abuse of clones for this kind of job. I attached a modified file where I grouped the different parts of the design (use objects panel : ctrl+ shift + L).
For example, in Frame group, you find the original Frame path and all of its clones. You just have to edit Frame path and all clones follow (I turned its stroke to green to see more clearly). Not happy with green : turn all strokes to black again in one go : no exhausting work.
Hi @David248
Sorry, what do you mean by "use and abuse of clones"? Like edit -> clone ?
And thank you, I just updated to 1.3.2 and it works fine. I didn't need to change anything, so it was just an issue with the older version :)
Yes, instead of placing dozens of duplicates, use clones : the file will be lighter and the changes easy and fast.
See the svg file I attached.