Hi folks - A video that shows the issues you can have as well as how i fix them. Hopefully its helpful. There ARE other ways to work around this, but i just wanted to show you one way to fix it and WHY you are having problems. Thanks Sarah
After the video I was completely confused ... as often as here was switched back and forth between all the different the settings ... Page, Object, Import, Export ... 300dpi here, then looked at the pixels at the other, there switched to inch, then somewhere else set to mm and again somewhere else again the dpi from 96 to 300 ... after half of the video there was only mush in my head. I have now set my self-created images in GIMP to 300dpi and saved. In Incscape all settings I found set to 300dpi (import, Page, Object, export, ...). I now drag in the 300dpi image ... if I then click on the image and switch to the top center of the edit window one by one and look at the dpi and the pixels I still only get 96 dpi ... but that seems to be the general representation / resolution in the editing window of Incscape. When exporting the image then has the desired high resolution.
Hi Sarah. I've found your Inkscape an Krita videos on creating seamless pattern files informative. Helpful too, mostly. I have so many questions though! Do you ever connect real time with folk?
Hi love, there is so much to learn with the seamless patterns for sure. (Sorry for 3 day reply been a shocker of a week all round) I don't normally but i might be able to help with questions? do you have anything specific you want to know or a project you are trying to create?
Do I need to save created business card first in a file, then open it and change the dpi to 300 for print? Or, do I export the dpi change before I create a file for the business card. I am not understanding what the difference is between "Save As" and "Export."
I think based on the way she explained you can either: 1. Design the work with the artboard being 3.125 times smaller than intended. Or 2. Design the work with the artboard being at the intended dimensions and then shrink the artboard and the work down after you're done. It sounds like another prep step tbh so I suggest, if you're working in pixels at least, to just "Format" your artboard to be [Original Dimensions / 3.125] and make sure you export at 300 dpi.
Hi Sarah, thanks for the video. I want to make exactly 300DPI 5400px 4500px image and send it. How can I be sure I am sending the correct size? sorry i'm a bit of a beginner! ;)
Neither of your "solutions" work when working with pixels. If you align your 300 dpi image in a 96 dpi pixel grid then pixels won't line up, and you'll get lots of antialiasing all over the place. E.g., if you draw a black "1 px" line then in the output it will be 2 black pixels and 2 partially transparent pixels. In your simplistic case it worked out well because your image fills the whole document, but let's say you want to add a 10 pixels to the left of your 300x300 px image and 20 pixels to the right of it. The output should obviously be 330 px wide, which is 1.1 inches, but how do you do this when the px rulers say that the image is 96x96 px? You'll have to start calculating a lot. E.g., 10 real pixels is considered 3.2 pixels in Inkscape. So you have to add 3.2 pixels to the left and 6.4 pixels to the right. This is extremely cumbersome. It's impossible to work like this!
As a workaround for a real solution to this extremely annoying aspect of inkscape you can add a 96/dpi px grid. E.g., for 300 dpi that would be a 0.32 px grid. This will show your output pixel boundaries, so if you want e.g. a crisp vertical line then just make sure its edge lines up with that grid.
Thank you. I design vector graphics from scratch a LOT and hated I couldn't just export for print after leaving Adobe's subscription plan. I think my method will be to make a folder for "Print SVG File" templates and just copy paste my vector over when I'm ready to export. I'll experiment a bit here or there as I know vector blurs have to be adjusted when scaling the vector img. But simply having template artboards ready to go seems like the best answer for me. Edit: Nvm. I think I'll treat it as a part of prep formatting and set the artboard appropriately before hand. Though I may still make the preset SVG files so I won't have to do it manually every single time. That way I won't have to change any blurs in software b4 export AND I wont have to copy and paste.
Hi folks - A video that shows the issues you can have as well as how i fix them. Hopefully its helpful. There ARE other ways to work around this, but i just wanted to show you one way to fix it and WHY you are having problems. Thanks Sarah
Go to preferences, import setting and change to always inport images at 300 dpi...
Thank you for restoring both my sanity and my faith in Inkscape!
Great explained, I finally got it. Thank you
thank you so much, i was going crazy trying to figure out what went wrong with the dpi. You explained this very well!:)
After the video I was completely confused ... as often as here was switched back and forth between all the different the settings ... Page, Object, Import, Export ... 300dpi here, then looked at the pixels at the other, there switched to inch, then somewhere else set to mm and again somewhere else again the dpi from 96 to 300 ... after half of the video there was only mush in my head.
I have now set my self-created images in GIMP to 300dpi and saved. In Incscape all settings I found set to 300dpi (import, Page, Object, export, ...). I now drag in the 300dpi image ... if I then click on the image and switch to the top center of the edit window one by one and look at the dpi and the pixels I still only get 96 dpi ... but that seems to be the general representation / resolution in the editing window of Incscape. When exporting the image then has the desired high resolution.
Hi Sarah. I've found your Inkscape an Krita videos on creating seamless pattern files informative. Helpful too, mostly. I have so many questions though! Do you ever connect real time with folk?
Hi love, there is so much to learn with the seamless patterns for sure. (Sorry for 3 day reply been a shocker of a week all round) I don't normally but i might be able to help with questions? do you have anything specific you want to know or a project you are trying to create?
Hi! I'm using Inkscape 1.2 (dc2aeda, 2022-05-15) on MAcOs and "advanced" function is not available on the export windows..any suggestion?
Do I need to save created business card first in a file, then open it and change the dpi to 300 for print? Or, do I export the dpi change before I create a file for the business card. I am not understanding what the difference is between "Save As" and "Export."
I think based on the way she explained you can either:
1. Design the work with the artboard being 3.125 times smaller than intended.
Or
2. Design the work with the artboard being at the intended dimensions and then shrink the artboard and the work down after you're done.
It sounds like another prep step tbh so I suggest, if you're working in pixels at least, to just "Format" your artboard to be [Original Dimensions / 3.125] and make sure you export at 300 dpi.
Hi Sarah, thanks for the video. I want to make exactly 300DPI 5400px 4500px image and send it.
How can I be sure I am sending the correct size?
sorry i'm a bit of a beginner! ;)
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Neither of your "solutions" work when working with pixels. If you align your 300 dpi image in a 96 dpi pixel grid then pixels won't line up, and you'll get lots of antialiasing all over the place. E.g., if you draw a black "1 px" line then in the output it will be 2 black pixels and 2 partially transparent pixels.
In your simplistic case it worked out well because your image fills the whole document, but let's say you want to add a 10 pixels to the left of your 300x300 px image and 20 pixels to the right of it. The output should obviously be 330 px wide, which is 1.1 inches, but how do you do this when the px rulers say that the image is 96x96 px? You'll have to start calculating a lot. E.g., 10 real pixels is considered 3.2 pixels in Inkscape. So you have to add 3.2 pixels to the left and 6.4 pixels to the right. This is extremely cumbersome. It's impossible to work like this!
As a workaround for a real solution to this extremely annoying aspect of inkscape you can add a 96/dpi px grid. E.g., for 300 dpi that would be a 0.32 px grid. This will show your output pixel boundaries, so if you want e.g. a crisp vertical line then just make sure its edge lines up with that grid.
Thank you. I design vector graphics from scratch a LOT and hated I couldn't just export for print after leaving Adobe's subscription plan.
I think my method will be to make a folder for "Print SVG File" templates and just copy paste my vector over when I'm ready to export. I'll experiment a bit here or there as I know vector blurs have to be adjusted when scaling the vector img. But simply having template artboards ready to go seems like the best answer for me.
Edit: Nvm. I think I'll treat it as a part of prep formatting and set the artboard appropriately before hand. Though I may still make the preset SVG files so I won't have to do it manually every single time. That way I won't have to change any blurs in software b4 export AND I wont have to copy and paste.