When I put a drawing into inkscape , then invert it , and print it without saving , it comes out shorter in size and any black that was on the original is lighter.
Zooming in on your image shows raster artifacts and blemishes suggesting that the left and right images are not duplicated and mirrored as you describe. It looks like a transparency digitized from a scanner with dirty glass. Please upload your svg file for further investigation.
This pdf contains a bitmap which seems to be scanned from a book. (At the top you can see a horizontal crease between pages.)
Open the file, select the image, clone it [alt+d], flip horizontally [ctrl+h], move the clone horizontally [shift+right-arrow]. Select the original and the clone and scale them to fit your page.
On my machine (a very old mac) the printed output yields the original and a perfect mirror image.
Pdf files are containers. Inside those containers you might find raster images, text, font definitions, vector shapes, form fields, digital signatures, and many more types of content.
Your pdf file contains a single raster image covering the entire page. Inkscape is a vector editor and can't edit this raster image, but it can change how it's displayed. You can rotate it and stretch it and flip it and scale it, but the original pixels will be preserved.
Perhaps an internet search for "raster vs vector" will clarify this for you.
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When I put a drawing into inkscape , then invert it , and print it without saving , it comes out shorter in size and any black that was on the original is lighter.
Zooming in on your image shows raster artifacts and blemishes suggesting that the left and right images are not duplicated and mirrored as you describe. It looks like a transparency digitized from a scanner with dirty glass. Please upload your svg file for further investigation.
This one is a single of the wing I was talking about.
This pdf contains a bitmap which seems to be scanned from a book. (At the top you can see a horizontal crease between pages.)
Open the file, select the image, clone it [alt+d], flip horizontally [ctrl+h], move the clone horizontally [shift+right-arrow]. Select the original and the clone and scale them to fit your page.
On my machine (a very old mac) the printed output yields the original and a perfect mirror image.
Paddy
when I select the image, it selects the page. so I clone it Alt +D
I think I need to select the image only. How do I do that.
cause this is what im getting.
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Pdf files are containers. Inside those containers you might find raster images, text, font definitions, vector shapes, form fields, digital signatures, and many more types of content.
Your pdf file contains a single raster image covering the entire page. Inkscape is a vector editor and can't edit this raster image, but it can change how it's displayed. You can rotate it and stretch it and flip it and scale it, but the original pixels will be preserved.
Perhaps an internet search for "raster vs vector" will clarify this for you.