Hello!

What is the best way to save your work in inkscape svg format so it imports into other programs without loosing anything?

Thanks,
Ed

Pilosopong Tasyo wrote:

ewood wrote:What is the best way to save your work in inkscape svg format so it imports into other programs without loosing anything?

Your question is a tad vague. Can you expound more? Give an example? If I were to interpret the above, I think it should rather be a question of whether or not other programs are able to render SVG formats faithfully. Inkscape SVGs produce valid SVG files anyway. Look into the documentation of your other program if it's good at rendering SVG. Also, Plain SVG versus Inkscape SVG.

Hello,

for example I can search for a .svg icon of a glossy arrows and I can drop them into what I am working on and still have full control of the object so I guess it's how stripped-down does a sgv need to be to be able to be used in any software that uses svg. I would think it's just the basics like shapes shading (maybe) and nothing like grouping or layers?


Thanks,
Ed

Plain svg can handle these:
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/

Layers are not included.
There are other thing stored in inkscape svg-s, like view position and zoom level, from sodipodi.

Also, some things are handled differently, like the line with, wich can be scaled differently in x and y directions according to the standard.

And, the flowed text is also an inkscape built in.

so just keep it simple kinda thing?

Matter of view.

If you want to turn it to pdf, you have to be careful with masking.
If you want to turn it to eps later on, you better close all the opened paths, and use only filled paths with no stroke (?).
The no stroke option avoids the problem of the inkscape optimalization anyway.
Other than that, inkscape handles kerning a bit different then the plain svg. There was a topic on that here.
Some other things that could come up, is the used font.
For graphic projects, you should provide the font -by embedding into the svg (?)-, but for commercial work that means you should buy the actual font's licence on that kind of use.
If that's a commercial font.
Alternatives are using a font with an open font licence from here: http://openfontlibrary.org/.
Less ethical, but commonly used solution, is to convert the text to outlines in the svg -wich again avoids any kerning problems.

And images should be embedded and not linked to in the svg to open everywhere just as youi want it to appear.