Inkscape crop image full#

If you were printing the image, then you would set the size at printing time, and it compresses the 'dots' back down to the right size. The DPI can be increased in the Export PNG dialog. I don't know if you could use an SVG file to provide the watermark, but it might be possible. And I don't know for a fact that it's possible at all. I guess you'd have to know a lot about coding webpages (where the video is) to be able to do that.

Inkscape crop image full#

If there were some way to make one watermark file available for the smaller video version, and another watermark file available for the full screen, then you could make 2 different size images, and avoid the pixelation (that's what it's called when a raster image is scaled or zoomed). So it's exporting to PNG when the vector text becomes rasterized. But I don't think you need clipping after all.) (I'm just guessing, but I think your attempts at clipping have been failing because you don't have both objects selected at the same time. First select whatever you want to be transparent. There are a couple of ways to do that, but the easiest way is Object menu > Fill and Stroke > Fill tab, and find the Opacity slider near the bottom of the dialog. To use as a watermark, you probably need to make the text partially transparent as well. So as long as you typed the text in Inkscape, and didn't import a raster image, it's already transparent. Inkscape's background is transparent by default. If you need it the size of the text, first select the text, then File menu > Document Properties > Page tab > Custom Size > Resize Page to Contents.

If you need the page to be the size of the video, go to File menu > Document Properties > Page tab > Custom Size. I guess you either need the page to be the size of the text, or the size of the video.įirst, delete all your other contents, all the clipping paths you made, everything but the text. (Remember that raster graphics (GIMP) and vector graphics (Inkscape) are very, very different.)Īlthough I don't know that for a fact. However, to use as a watermark, I'm guessing you probably need the page to be the same size as the object. That's what the bounding box shows you, the size of the object. The text already is the size of the bounding box. I'm concerned that you might not need to clip the text at all. If you could give us a little more info about what you want to accomplish, we can guide you in the proper way to do it.

Possibly you didn't have both the text/group and clipping path both selected. I don't know why the result would look like your 3rd example, because it looks like you've drawn a whole new clipping path. If you clip the text as you've shown it, it's not going to look any different.Īnyway, you have the correct steps for clipping. But it's possible you don't need to clip the text at all. It's not clear from your screenshot what else might be happening with the image. (Even though the Rectangle tool draws a shape, not a path, it still works like a path for clipping, and some other things.)īut now that I'm thinking about that, I'm starting to wonder why you want to clip the text in the first place. But in any case, since they are already a single object, you don't need to group them.ģ - While you certainly can use any tool that draws a path, to create the clipping path, in this case you would typically use the Rectangle tool, and draw a rectangle around it. I don't know whether they are one text object or a group (I would need to see the SVG file, to know that). 2 - Ok, if you look at the text after you select it, notice how the bounding box (the dashed line rectangle) is already around both of them.