On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:00:28PM +1000, Erik de
Castro Lopo wrote:
Fons Adriaensen wrote:
* Inkscape. After two hours of trying I still
can't draw a simple
rectangle. It gets filled (in blue) and all attempts to change
that have failed.
Draw the rectangle (it will be blue), then go to the Object
menu and choose Fill and Stroke. In the Fill pane, wind the
Alpha down to zero. In the Stroke Paint pane chose the second
box Flat Color.
You should now have a black rectangle, without any fill colour
on a white background.
That works. Any way to make that the default ?
Effective linewidths are quite different from what
is set in that dialog.
Other problems: prints PDF but only full page, i.e.
again not usable to insert into latex.
It works flawlessly here. My latex compile script does this
$ inkscape <source-svg> --without-gui --export-eps=<target-eps>
$ epstopdf <source-eps> -o=<target-pdf>
And it generates a pdf that perfectly fits the drawn area.
I thought that the direct svg->pdf command (inkscape <source-svg> --without-gui
--export-pdf=<target-pdf>) also behaved this way but probably not. And perhaps this
is why I'm using the two steps method.
P