Best quality svg for MS Word

[Dissonance]

Hello! I make music notation examples in Inkscape to put inline in essays in Word. I'm having trouble with my examples printing low res. I have to select all and choose object to path otherwise font characters in the svg don't display properly in Word. I noticed that neither svg nor png (exported) files print well in Word. Does anybody have some suggestions to help me get my example to print in high res?

[Lazur]

Hi.

The best would be to save your work as pdf in inkscape and print the pdf from a pdf voewer.
Pdf is a printers format, so it should preserve the look as scalable vectors.

Just guessing, you were probably using flowed texts which didn't made it into the svg specs thus word doesn't recognise your text objects.
If you convert the text to path (Ctrl+Shift+C) you won't have to worry about the font not recognised either. Which is also in the options of the save as pdf dialog.

[Dissonance]

Hi Lazur,

Thank you for your response. My first impression is that you know a lot about this. I did some reading about flowed texts, and you're probably right about my problem. In addition to the music fonts made by the industry, I'm using some fonts I made 10 years ago to display music inline in text editors, so I'm not surprised there are problems with the fonts I made. Converting them to paths seems to take care of a lot of problems.

What I need to do is create examples in a music notation program (Finale), export them to svg, edit them in Inkscape, and then put them inline into MS Word. I need them to be low file size and print in high res. I have success in editing them in Inkscape, but I lose resolution when I put them into Word. Inkscape allows me to save as these formats
Inkscape OUT.jpg
(61.45 kB . 478x400)
(viewed 193 times), and Word allows me to import in these formats
Word IN.jpg
(44.74 kB . 600x226)
(viewed 185 times). I've tried all sorts of combinations, by my end product always sucks. Advice?

Thanks,
D

[Lazur]

Honestly I wouldn't use word and inserting a print ready file into word, have no experience with that.
As far as I know word has textboxes and other frames which is a burden to get rid of for just a musical score between for example page 25 an 28.

Theoretically word can handle svg files without quality loss -pull it in as vectors- or import vectorgraphics in wmf format as cliparts, maybe emf format too. The wmf is not recommended for some reasons beyond me by the developers, labeling it as an outdated format.

Probably I'd make the necessary visual adds in inkscape for the notation and save those as pdf.
Then, would save the word file as pdf too.
After that, with pdfsam basic would split it up and merge the pages back together with the additional pdf-s from inkscape.


On a side note I'm using musescore to write down much simpler sheet music -random choral works- and have yet to figure out how to add a custom styling to it for printing. Also how to render it to each beat having the exact same visual lengths so it can be animated at an even speed.