I am trying to draw a set of electronic circuit diagram symbols to use it for drawing circuit diagrams using Inkscape in stead of my usual drawing program: Serif DrawPlus X6, which can only be used in Windows 7.
Why? Because I want to get rid of Windows as an O.S. and use Linux as my O.S.
After a lot of experiments with printer settings, My Windows 7 “Serif DrawPlus X6” program printing quality is still better than the Inkscape printer quality.
In the attachment I give a start of some of my used symbols which I now have drawn in Inkscape.
Looking at the print result, I especially find the 'resistor' symbol (that zig-zag drawing) still a little bit “hairy” compaired to the same symbol when I use Serif's “DrawPLus X6” as print out. And yes, you have to do a “close look” to notice this but anyway, but I can notice the difference.
Is there something I can do to improve this? Perhaps redrawing that resistor symbol while fiddling with Inkscape settings or whatever…
My printer is a HP Officejet 7610 and my linux OS is PCLinuxOS KDE 64bit.
Thanks in advance.

Hi.

Not sure what that drawplus produces, but I'd suggest printing from a pdf file.

There are two sides that can be wrong: "hairy" as on the original file, or bad output from your printer (and it's rip).
For the first, you can make your drawing cleaner -alike-.
For the latter, maybe it's related to drawplus -did it produce vector or raster format? I assume vector should look sharper, but maybe if it was a raster, it got smoothed out?

Many thanks Lazur URH for the effort to improve my drawings!
Especially the ones where those components (triode and resistor) have rounded edges.
How did you accomplish this? Can you write down the steps you did to get to those results please?
I tried to separate the lines from the resistors to edit them and also the triode using "Ungroup" but
nothing happend. How can I do this also? Because I want to modify the triode into a tetrode or a pentode.
Thanks in advance!
About my printer: No there is nothing wrong with it because when using the same printer in Windows and printing a
schematic diagram using DrawPlus X6, printing quality is good.

For the first, you can make your drawing cleaner -alike-.

Lazur URH, I am analyzing this file and are still puzzled about how to add those segments using "extentions" > "Modify Path" > 'Add Nodes".
It is a kind of a mystery for me which parameters to fill in : "Maximum segment length" combined with "Number of segments".
Did several trials without getting some understanding. It certainly has something to do with my I.Q.

The extension works either by length of segment or by number of new segments.
The latter should work, though there are other ways -by adding new nodes to a segment manually, making 32 equal long segment and deleting the unnecessary nodes.
Sorry for not replying before, totally forgot.

Will make another file soon.

Made this guide, based on the grid, so yet another workaround.
Hope this one helps.

Lazur URH wrote:Made this guide, based on the grid, so yet another workaround.
Hope this one helps.

hlp165.svg

Thank you very much for this file! Must have been a lot of work to do this.
I will certainy use it to get used to Inkscape. A very good job!

Thank's!

The hardest part was not to left out any step and its description. Drawing these two objects can be done in minutes.

Good luck!