#What is inkscape paper sizes how to

It makes some huge outputs sometimes, which can be troublesome for Inkscape on limited machines… so I’m exploring CLI which is simple and expedient.

I am creating mostly in Processing with a variety of my own and other sketches, but the troublesome files are coming from modified versions of Scott Cooper’s pathfinding and gcode sketch: I’m a little new to the intricacies of the SVG format and this helped. That’s obviously not desirable or what I want - so I want to force the scale to something like 8×11 at the time I send it.Īlso could to pre-scale / set viewport with a command-line tool in advance - or convert to PDF if that lets me force scaling to a desired page-size.

But I’ve noticed in test runs (pen up or preview mode) that arm wants to print outside the plot area… i.e., the image is too big. The image is 1200×1600 and complex enough that Inkscape struggles/crashes with it (hence the desired use of the CLI to plot directly). Perhaps –model 2 does all of the scaling and sets all plots to A3? Viewport is not set in the SVG header of my current test file. My graphics are often quite large and need to be resized to fit page height and width. In Inkcape I would set page-size and visually confirm like a “print preview”, but in CLI I can’t find an option for setting scale.

#What is inkscape paper sizes how to

I have this generally working, but don’t understand how to scale any given SVG to the page size I want (A3 vs 8×11 vs maybe I want tiny). I’m driving the Axidraw with a Pi4/Raspberrian.

I want to use the CLI to go straight to the plotter (no Inkscape). New to Axidraw but have the basics working.