I'm trying to create small text that should be sent to a laser cutter for engraving. The n in the attached image is 1.33mm tall. When printing this file to the laser cutter from Adobe Illustrator, the result is identical with the original design, but from Inkscape the result gets jagged edges.
This looks like an issue with floating point precision somewhere in the printing process but I'm not able to find a way around it. I have tried increasing the SVG output numeric precision from 8 to 9 with no change in the result. This is not likely the culprit though since the svg file prints nicely from Illustrator.
That workflow does solve the problem with the jagged letters. However, shouldn't this be possible without going through Adobe Reader? Is there a good reason why print does not work properly?
Beyond the Basics File format precision problem
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I'm trying to create small text that should be sent to a laser cutter for engraving. The n in the attached image is 1.33mm tall. When printing this file to the laser cutter from Adobe Illustrator, the result is identical with the original design, but from Inkscape the result gets jagged edges.
This looks like an issue with floating point precision somewhere in the printing process but I'm not able to find a way around it. I have tried increasing the SVG output numeric precision from 8 to 9 with no change in the result. This is not likely the culprit though since the svg file prints nicely from Illustrator.
Any suggestions?
It is most common to save a copy as pdf and print or send to lasers from Adobe reader.
That workflow does solve the problem with the jagged letters. However, shouldn't this be possible without going through Adobe Reader? Is there a good reason why print does not work properly?
Let's just say that for at least the past 5 years Inkscape's print output has been a bit unreliable and using Adobe has been bullet-proof.
I'm sure that if it were simple, it would have been solved by now.