And of course nothing is ever as easy as you think it's going to be :-( This is turning into a nightmare. In-house artist opened the file, did her magic and sent me a proof in which she'd turned all my gradients into solids, and had things printed atop one another where I'd previously cut out to avo...

Thank you all so much!
Would you believe that after all of this, the printer finally let me speak with the in-house graphic artist directly, and she was able to open my svg files with no problem?! arg!

You bet Tami appreciates all comments! You guys are a generous wealth of information and experience. Thank you again. Don't worry about trying to save to pdf, Brynn. I've used enough of your time. Druban, your idea of saving to a non-vector file is exactly what I've resorted to in the past, and it l...

The limit is 250k I think, and I can't get mine below 260 or something like that :-( I *think* I uploaded a file to filesharesite (see link below). It *should* be a "regular" svg with 5 layers, one the "whole" image, and one for each of 5 colors. It may well still have some thing...

Thanks, Maestral- Pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean by "skipped" and "unjustified"? re: outlines>> See my answer to Brynn where I stumbled backward into the outline answer. If I'd known then what I know now, right? re: text>> All text converted to paths. re: headscratchin...

It's very interesting to hear your feedback, thank you. Answering your questions, producing more: There shouldn't be any filters in there anywhere. In this one, there aren't even any gradients. Just all solid colors. As far as shapes vs paths, that's something I hadn't considered. I thought if it ha...

Thanks, Brynn. You are very kind to help. My version of Inkscape gives the option of 1.4 or 1.5. I'm choosing 1.5 because I figure that'll be the most advanced, but I could be wrong. About svg vs pdf and why I'm talking about both. (at this point I'm talking in circles I think- arg) IF I can get the...

I think I attached the file here??? The file I really need to upload is too big. This is one of the first drafts before it got complicated.

"Plain SVG" <dumb look on face> never thought of that- duh Thanks, that's a great idea. I'm kinda stuck with this printshop for reasons that don't matter to this conversation. Thanks for confirming that ai should be able to open the svg. This shop does almost 100% screen print Tshirts, hoo...

Maestral, thanks for the input and sorry for confusion. I haven't slept alot lately ;-) The printshop does not have inkscape. All they have is AI. They keep telling me that AI won't open svg. Interestingly, I downloaded a trial of AI last night, and it opens svg files fine, though there is one part ...

Thanks, ofnuts.
So, you think they don't really get the technical distinction between raster and vector? I'm still hoping to hear from someone who uses inkscape with screen printing. I know some of the online T printing places will take .svg files.

I'm hoping y'all can help me with an issue I"m having with a screen printer. I'm not a pro graphic artist. I'm self-taught, starting with "tweaking" and "improving" designs started by the printer's paid artists when they have had trouble getting the concept in my head onto t...

I just typed out ten random names in font size 14 in a txt document, then copied them 9 times for a total of 100. It barely took up half the 8.5x11 page. Trust me; you can get aLOT of names on a shirt an dhave them be legible. My printer even does outlined letters or shadowed letters at that size. C...

VICTORY! :-D So, to summarize, it is a two step process. First, you take the text and flow it into the narrow to wide shape. When the shape is made, it's important that you start at the bottom left in order to get the text to go the right direction in the end. Second, you use the perspective extensi...

YES! You are the man (woman?)!!! Now, how'd you do it?
Thanks for the welcome, btw, Brynn. I've used this forum many times to solve problems but never posted. Y'all are amazing.
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Brynn, thank you so much for generously sharing your knowledge. I had to giggle about your nightgown reference. Actually you'd be surprised how many names you can screen print on a T-shirt, even a child's. I've done them in a spiral, in the shape of a Superman emblem, as a rectangle, etc., and done ...

I'm doing a T-shirt in a Star Wars theme. The reverse is to have a long list of group member names in the movie credit style (narrow at the top, wider at the bottom). I can get the text to flow into the shape I want, but I'm wondering if there is an easy way to have the font size gradually increase ...