{"id":4305,"date":"2024-11-18T09:27:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T15:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/?p=4305"},"modified":"2024-09-18T07:42:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T12:42:21","slug":"inkscape-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/?p=4305","title":{"rendered":"InkScape Printing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In making the labels for my NFC music tags, I ran into a fun bug when printing from InkScape. Sometimes it doesn&#8217;t print your entire image. In my case, it printed all the outline boxes for the labels but NONE of the actual images for the labels. I <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.inkscape.org\/vectors\/www.inkscapeforum.com\/viewtopic5dfc-3.html?t=16314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">found out from a forum post<\/a> that this is a common problem for more complex images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The way to get around this is to&#8221;Save a Copy&#8221; of your document as a PDF format, open that PDF in your favorite PDF viewer and print that out. Ensure in the print dialog that the PDF isn&#8217;t being scaled as well, as the application might try to be &#8220;helpful&#8221; in that way (which is entirely unhelpful when you need it to be a specific size). Don&#8217;t print the InkScape drawing as a PDF since that runs into the same print bug, it needs to be save as to the format for everything to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"487\" height=\"623\" src=\"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-29.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-29.png 487w, https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-29-235x300.png 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Actual Size&#8221; is the setting you want here<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I use Edge to open and print PDF documents, so I make sure &#8220;actual size&#8221; is selected rather than &#8220;fit to printable area&#8221; which will shrink the document that already fits just fine on a sheet of paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In making the labels for my NFC music tags, I ran into a fun bug when printing from InkScape. Sometimes it doesn&#8217;t print your entire image. In my case, it printed all the outline boxes for the labels but NONE of the actual images for the labels. I found out from a forum post that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/?p=4305\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;InkScape Printing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,27],"class_list":["post-4305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rantop-ed","tag-quick-bites","tag-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4308,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions\/4308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}