Okay It's been hours and a lot of wasted ink and paper and my eyes are so tired from looking at the computer monitor for so long. Can anyone help me? The problem is when ever I print this vector of mine I just can't get it to print fully. The printed end result is always cropped. The vector size is smaller than the paper I want to print it on but for some reason when I print the picture is enlarged and cropped. I just simply want to print my vector image to the size I want on letter size paper. Is that too much to ask for. Please help inkscape gurus!

Hi.

If you save as pdf and print outside inkscape, you may have better luck.
Maybe your image is too detailed -many filters are used?
Who knows.
By exporting to pdf, filters will rendered to embedded raster images, so
you may also try to export the svg to a png at a reasonable resolution, and print that.

Okay thank you I will try this.

Here a newbie from Holland. Vector printing with Adobe Illustrator is not a problem. But with inkscape I can't print.
Only what I can is, save it, and placed in LibreOffice - Draw, that is a vector program, and it print better than a PDF program.
Is there not another way to print directly with inkscape? I draw miniature furniture 1:12 and my wife make them very precisely to 0,05 mm
http://frommew.home.xs4all.nl/miniaturen.html

Hi.

What's the problem with printing from acrobat/foxit reader?
There you can set to print the actual size.
At the document's properties panel (Shift+Ctrl+D) you can set the right paper size -default it's A4.
Once saved as a pdf, it should come out true to scale printed with any printer through a pdf viewer.

Thanks for your reaction.
The oblique lines are not smooth but ribbed with PDF.
Also, I cannot print from Inkscape directly, it "print" a empty page, as I did in illustrator.
On the internet, I saw others also had these problems.
maybe I have to change the ppi ?
thanks for helping!

I'm not sure.

If saved as pdf, your work is preserved as vectors.
Thus there would be no need to care about resolution there.

If it is printed with a pdf printer, like cutepdf, it would all get rasterised, meaning small details get blurred due to a fixed -too low- resolution.

If the problem appears after printing, it is the printing that could be improved on the harware side.
Like, the printer may be able to work with more than 600 dpi, but if you are not using good papers, lines won't come out that sharp.

Hello
I have printed a Adobe illustrator drawing and that was exelent, so it is not the canon printer.
I printed with a HP printer the same dawings and had als this problems and the illustrator was als good.
mayby it is the paper or the pdi
thanks for helping

I have changed the printer hardware ppi en other paper now it prints lines thickness 0,1 px in PDF without blurred lines. The outside of the line is exact to 0,01 mm Hetty is happy now.

Glad to hear it got solved!

A bit of calculation:
in your other topic you wrote 0,05 mm, which is 0,001969 inches. If these small parts were covered by one points only, then it would mean an 508 dpi print resolution.
If 0,01 mm-s are covered by 1 points, then it would take 2540 dpi printing.
Haven't experienced with printing set up myself, but it seems logical that if the printer uses only black ink, it can be much sharper in the end on the same printer -printing in greyscale.

Hetty paste the prints on the wood and saw on the outer side of the line and the part is then sanded lightly.
They used a digital caliper, and then work up to 0.05 mm.
Some miniaturists are much better and make intarsia flowers with twigs of wood as thin as a hair of your head!
Sorry for my bad english, it's very long time ago that I learned.