Inkscape

saving in PDF/X-1a:2001

Asked by asher blake

hi. I'm trying to save my inkscape image with this setting PDF/X-1a:2001.

I've tried saving as a Word XML doc, open office drawing, and PDF, so that i could open in microsoft, open office, and adobe photoshop, and resave the file with the right setting. In Microsoft Word and Open Office the files are damaged though when they open, and in Photoshop I know that the setting I want does not seem to be there.

Also a second question. When my image is saved in inkscape it seems only to select a portion and not the whole thing. If I need to change the dimensions how do I do that?

Thanks so much in advance. Have a good day.

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Hachmann (marenhachmann) said : 		#1

Hi Asher,

the problem here is that the programs you use to import the file do not support all the features of svg which inkscape supports. This is a quite general problem, which also concerns scribus.

Another problem is that the format you want to create does not support all svg features. PDF-X does not support partial transparency, also no filters (like blur).

Depending on your image (does it contain partial transparencies? Does it contain filters? Clipping? Masks?) you will never get the same picture in a PDF-X.

So you have two options, if PDF-X is the only format you can use (usually for printing):
- modify the svg so it does not contain partial transparency, no filters, no clipping, no masks.
- export to TIFF and import. I'm not sure if partial transparency works here, in scribus it does not (only full transp. / solid colors), I believe.

About this:
"Also a second question. When my image is saved in inkscape it seems only to select a portion and not the whole thing. If I need to change the dimensions how do I do that?"
Select nothing or everything. Go to File->Document settings -> look into the block 'user defined' -> fit page to selection (or something similar, I've got the German version here).
Or else, just make sure that every object is on the page shown by inkscape. The objects outside are not 'lost' on saving, but other programs only show the part of the picture which is on the page, and not those objects outside.

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Hachmann (marenhachmann) said : 		#2

Forgot to mention: export to Tiff isn't possible directly.
I meant: export to png, convert to TIFF and then import.
Sorry! I have automated that second conversion, so I don't really think about it any more.

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