SVN version of Inkscape (to-be 0.46) uses poppler (0.5.4 and above) to import PDF files. Implemented features: The new import extension can import paths, text, clippaths, masked or non-masked images, and softmasks. It supports pattern fills (XStep and YStep attributes are ignored) as well as linear and radial gradients. Inkscape can also be used to open PDF files, one page at a time, and then you can edit and re-arrange elements on your PDF file. However, you need to be aware that Inkscape is not specifically designed for editing PDF files and is not the most efficient PDF editing tool. Inkscape is a great vector drawing software with poor documentation. Most people quit using Inkscape after a few tries because the GUI looks different than that of (say) Illustrator. Although I use Illustrator for most of my technical drawings I can’t help but appreciate the amount of functionality packed into Inkscape, which is after all a.

I've picked Inkscape as a replacement of CorelDRAW on my Windows. It's free, so of course there have to be a few backdrops in face of its mighty ability to create perfect XML code for images. However, suppose I want to create a 10-paged documentary on Indian politics. Or anything. Now, how do I do it?

Making a folder and saving each page separately as an .svg file would be messy. So my question is this:

How can I, given that I can in the first place, make a multi-paged document with Inkscape? Even if the answer is 'No, you can't,' please say so in an answer.

2 Answers

Today there is no native multi-page support in Inkscape due to limitations of the strictly implemented SVG specifications (multi-page support was only introduced in SVG 1.2. draft which was never released but dropped in favour of the upcoming SVG 2.0).

To overcome this an external plugin inkscape-pages provides multi-page support through generating a master page with links to subpages. However this plugin will not produce SVG 2.0 code for future compatibility. Nevertheless it will help creating multiple pages for later export to PDF (e.g. with the help of pdftk).

If there are not many pages, try saving them as separate single page PDF files after editing with Inkscape and then merge using some tool like PDF fill. I do not know if it may lead to some problems later, but it worked for me when I tried with 3 PDF files.

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• Very good and usefull. But bugs sometimes while changing the master page. So don't save your changes before moving from master back to a normal page. If something went wrong, you'll know it only when going beck to normal pages. You can actually undo you changes and try again.

• While it appears to work out of the box, the extension regularly 'loses' pages while saving, and will finally so corrupt your SVG that it is no longer useful. The bug that, as far as I can tell, causes this is supposedly 'closed,' but I am using an up-to-date version.

• Inkscape-pages works good.

• Reliable and stable, thanks inkscape-pages

• Easy to install, simple to use. Works as a hack (truly an extension) over Inkscape. Add page switching capability. Just enough before a full integration. Printing is not so trivial (needs PDF conversion) but works perfectly. It is much easier to use this extension than learning a new software or tool for DTP.

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