
If you have any questions about any of the above, or if you have made these changes and are still having difficulty preparing your Inkscape file for Origin, send us an email-we're happy to help! Attach your file and a include a brief explanation of what's happening on Origin's screen when you try to cut the file. Setting your Inkscape Preferences to a geometric bounding box will ensure that both bounding box dimensions on tool and in Inkscape match up with one another. Origin calculates the bounding box based upon the middle of the stroke. Inkscape defaults to a visual bounding box, which includes stroke width in its calculation of the bounding box's dimensions. Go to Edit > Preferences > Tools and select 'Geometric Bounding Box'. Go to Edit > Preferences > Input/Output > SVG Output and match your settings to those found below. The Inkscape SVG file type will include extraneous data that will not be used by Origin.

#INKSCAPE SVG PDF#
Go to File > Document Properties to select your default units. I have an Inkscape SVG file with a few transparency effects and different layers that I want to export to a PDF file for distribution.

The program includes a good bunch of features and tools and it can deal with formats like PNG, JPG, BMP or TIFF, it supports layer systems. It uses W3C standard, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Use real world units (inches or millimeters) rather than pixels. Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editor with similar features to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw or Xara X, but this is free.

If you're using Inkscape to design files for Origin, you'll want to make a few changes to how Inkscape saves and prepares file prior to sending your file to Origin.
