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How to create an inner border (stroke) in Inkscape?
An alternative workflow to the one presented by @cristian-ciupitu would be this:
Create (or select) an object or a path with no fill. If you want, you can already set the stroke width (Shift+Ctrl+F), ...
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How can I split PDF file into layers
I've found one manual solution using Inkscape, am looking around for ways to automate it.
Open the PDF in Inkscape (I too had a map like yours). Go with the default import settings.
Menu > Object &...
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How to create an inner border (stroke) in Inkscape?
Select the stroke and Path -> Stroke to path, now your stroke becomes a "shape"
Use Path -> Division to divide the shape into inner and outer parts.
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How to print PDF containing transparency and layered graphics keeping non vector images quality
You may have a box checked in your settings that you should not. In the options panel, check that your ISO 19005-1 compliant (PDF/A) field is unchecked. This will prevent transparency's in artwork.
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LibreCad drawing always fills page in print preview
It seems LibreCad print preview scales automatically the dimensions.
You can check one time the fix checkbox on the preview page and then, after further modifications, it will remain fixed.
So a ...
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Taking vector screenshot from Firefox
gtk-vector-screenshot isn't going to work as you expect from all apps. Some apps use a canvas and do custom drawing to that. All you would get is a canvas placeholder (as you did). gtk-vector-...
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Vector .docx to vector .pdf?
Okay, figured it out. As it seems neither my .svg or .emf files were purely vector graphic images. I had a raster image inside the files embedded next to the vector graphic content.
It is also a ...
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Using Latex in Inkscape 1.0 Beta on macOS Catalina
"The EQTeXSVG extension (Render > LaTeX) that could be used to convert an inline LaTeX equation into SVG paths using Python was dropped, due to its external dependencies."
http://wiki.inkscape.org/...
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Scale PDF page size _without_ adding white background
(Answer due to @johnwhitington)
Use a PDF command-line manipulation tool which supports such (lossess) scaling. One such tool is cpdf, short for "Coherent PDF".
Get the binary distribution ...
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PDF export from Word changes line width of thin lines in embedded SVG
The minimum line width that Word imposes during PDF export of an embedded SVG graphic is relative to the original size of the SVG. So there is a workaround:
Scale up the SVG graphic e.g. to 10 times ...
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Why does Inkscape only snap sometimes when dragging objects?
See this documentation
In short, you have to choose what key-point to snap: corners, bounding box corners or midpoints, center (several flavours of that). For a rectangle shape, corners and bounding ...
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Control shape proportions when Edit Point in PowerPoint 2010?
It's a much-requested feature, but no. Not even in the latest version of PowerPoint.
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Why does Illustrator run slow when high resolution images are imported to it?
You're Hammering Nails with a Screwdriver
To succinctly answer your questions
Yes, it has something to do with RAM. While Illustrator only requires 4GB of RAM to run on a 64-bit system, Adobe ...
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Complex graphics in power point
There are two options here:
Draw it directly in Microsoft PowerPoint (as mentioned)
Draw it in another tool (for example, Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw) and then import it into Powerpoint. This ...
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How can I split PDF file into layers
posting another possible solution using ogr2ogr tool. Here's a repo where it worked like a charm to help rip out several layers from a "Geo PDF": https://github.com/draftmpd41/...
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How to draw a circle split in 10 slices?
Copy and Paste the data to an Excel Worksheet or write the data manually. Select all the data as shown. Select Insert->2-D Pie and the Pie will be shown. Choose the style that you like from Chart ...
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Can I take a screenshot as vector graphics or at a higher resolution than native?
Not currently. This should be possible but it not.
Windows since Vista uses Windows Presentation Foundation
OS X uses Quartz 2D (PDF).
Both are native vector UIs, but allow bitmaps to be used as ...
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How to install Uniconvertor (command-line app) on Mac OS 10.7.2 (Lion)?
The creators of uniconvertor are now doing macOS builds for the Mavericks (10.9) and up:
https://sk1project.net/uc2/daily-builds/
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Converting Photoshop .CSH files to .SVG or .EPS. Possible?
In PhotoShop (PS), with your Custom Shapes already saved to Presets > Custom Shapes Folder.
Go to Custom Shapes in PS then create your shapes in a new PS file (they are now Work Paths) then Export ...
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Insert PDF image in MS Word
If you insert a PDF page as an object in Office, you will get a poorly rendered raster graphic. You can insert it as a vector graphic as follows:
Starting with Office 2016 and Microsoft 365, Microsoft ...
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Insert PDF image in MS Word
There's a Word add-in called OnMerge PDFpasteup (free eval version available; use that if you just have a one-time need) that seamlessly grabs graphics from PDF files and copies into the Word doc. ...
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How to create an inner border (stroke) in Inkscape?
To accomplish this goal, my work around is to first click the option on the toolbar to turn OFF that "Scaling artwork scales stroke"
Next, set your desired stroke width.
Finally, change the ...
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