Sometimes, as in the case of logo design, some restrictions on all this freedom are quite helpful. Inkscape - and most of its tools - let you design anything you want, wherever you need it, and start from anywhere on a blank page. This tool allows you to draw straight lines and Bezier curves.

Select the 12th tool from the application toolbar, depicted with a small pencil with a line, which looks like the shadow below. To do this, choose File> Document Properties and change the orientation, right from the Page Size list (s), to horizontal. Most logos are larger than the width, so it's better to set the page horizontally. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard, “we only designed it for the web,” and how many times I’ve had to break the bad news to a client that their pretty monitor colors and low resolution raster effects are going to look completely different in print.Inkscape's default mode for new documents is vertical. I don’t recommend sRGB format for anything but web use. It’s limited in gamut and still doesn’t translate to CMYK printing very well but it is usually well within the gamut of most monitors. Are you working in an RGB profile? A specific monitor profile? Are you saving to the same profile or something else when going to the pdf or jpg format? If you are designing something strictly for web view, you should probably work in an sRGB format all the way through. I’m not familiar with Inkscape but guessing the answer to your color shift may lie in the profiles you are using in both instances. Yeah…that’s what’s happening.Īre you saving the PDFs as a raster format or a vector format out of inkscape? And why are you using. Have you ever walked into a store that sells wide screen TVs?Įver notice how the color differs on each model.

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