This morning I wanted to create an svg to share with someone. It's a text design, and I'm using commercial use fonts, so I thought it would be pretty simple. (It was definitely not.) I've learned that the quickest way was for me to type each line of text one at a time in to fontlab pad, save it, then send her several svgs to put together herself in design space.
But I was still frustrated with not knowing why Inkscape wasn't doing what I know it can do. So I went searching, and found a few answers. I still have SO much to learn, but below are a few quick answers that helped tremendously.
Quick Links:
- Where To Find Free Commercial Use Fonts
- Where To Download Inkscape
- How to convert pngs & jpgs to SVGs - 10 different apps and websites compared, including inkscape
- Do's And Don'ts for Selling Cut Files For Silhouette & Cricut (From Cutting For Business)
Typing the text in inkscape was easy enough, and I immediately thought "this is so easy!" and that all I had to do was save as an svg. No. When I attempted to upload it to Design Space, I got a message that it was unsupported. A few quick google searches taught me that I had to "convert to path".
Convert To Path In Inkscape
Convert To Path In Inkscape
- select text
- choose Object/Ungroup
- select all the letters, choose Path/Stroke To Path
- There's a really good explanation of the differences between Stroke To Path & Object To Path here. From that site: "One of the main things to remember when working with stroke is it will always cut as a single line regardless of how wide the stroke looks on your screen. If you only want to print the design you do not have to make changes. However, if you wish to cut the design you would apply Path>Stroke to Path to ensure the design cuts how it looks on your screen."
Ok, that was a quick fix! No problem! Saved as an svg.
And then I uploaded it to Design Space and it was 542 inches wide. I'm not kidding. It took a few minutes to load, so I suspected it was going to be large, but 542 inches wide? I was expecting it to be 8 inches wide. I couldn't even see it in design space, because the x y position was all messed up too.. but I'll get to that later. First things first. Fix the communication between inkscape and design space.
Quick Settings To Fix Sizing Issues:
- cntrl/shift/D (all at once) to access the document properties in Inkscape
- Set Display Units to px
- Set Custom Size Units to px
- Set custom size to 1080 x 1080
That seems to work!
Fixing The X Y coordinates
from Inkscape To Design Space
Quick Settings:
- For a true fix - No idea, I'm still clueless
- As a work Around - I just changed the x to 1 and the y to 1 once it was uploaded, and that moved it to a spot on the canvas where I could see it.
The Problem - when I uploaded the svg, you can only see the bottom of the design.
If You look at the Y position, it is at -8.74
I don't have any idea how to fix this from the Inkscape end, but in Design Space, I simply changed the X to 1 and the Y to 1 - and that moved the design to a visible space in Design Space.
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Quick Settings To Fix Sizing Issues: (FAIL)
- cntrl/shift/D (all at once) to access the document properties in Inkscape
- Set Display Units to in
- Set Custom Size Units to in
- Set custom size to 12 x 12 (the size of the mat for cricut)
- Set Scale to 72 - If I understand correctly, this tells Inkscape that Design Space reads an inch as 72 pixels. Or something like that. Notice that the scale in my 1st example is .26 - that change was automatic. I think messing with this is tricky.
I'm including this method because the first time I tried it, it worked like magic! When I went back and tried to repeat it, It did not work. I must be missing something the second time around, but I do not know what!
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Thank you for sharing the document properties changes. I am still having issues with sizing. In your photo you show 1280 and in the instructions you share 1080. Which one works best?
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