Terry Hancock (Director/Producer)Sep 20, 2025
This is certainly the largest book I've laid out in Inkscape, using the new multipage features introduced into recent versions by @doctormo . Currently at 40 pages!

I have to say that it is working very well on a technical level.

I do think a cool option might be to lay these out in more of a grid than in a single long line of pages, to make better use of the canvas space when zoomed out to get an overview of the project.

Also, I haven't found a really good way to set up guides that apply to every page, for setting consistent margins. I tried just using a grid sized to match the pages, but I'd have to include the gutter space between pages to make it stay aligned. Not sure where I can even find what that size is.

In Scribus, you can set up a prototype page that is a base for each new page, and if you put margins and guides on that page, they show up everywhere. Maybe something similar would be good in Inkscape?

It's going to work nicely for this project, though. I'm almost done. Probably won't be over 48 pages when finished.
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Show threadTerry Hancock (Director/Producer)Sep 20, 2025
I think this would be a pretty good way to make a graphic novel.

Panels should be particularly easy to set up in Inkscape, and with clipping boundaries and layering, you can do overlapping, full-bleed, and other stylistic options easily (provided your printer can handle it, of course).

Printing companies will often ask for cutting marks to do full-blled artwork (that is, the PDF pages you submit are oversize, with marks to indicate where the paper should be trimmed). #Blender3D #FreeStyle #NPR3D #LineArt #art # #ColoringBook
Show threadTerry Hancock (Director/Producer)
One thing I do wonder about is when I would hit a practical limit.

With Scribus, when I was using it in 2009, it really couldn't handle projects above about 30 pages. The computer would become unreasonably slow, and the latency would destroy any productivity.

So when I typeset my book then, I actually did it one chapter at a time, and then zipped the chapters together with command line PDF tools to create the PDF I sent to the printer (which was Lulu).

Of course, I imagine things have improved in the last 14 years, but I haven't actually checked.

I wonder if Inkscape will run into some kind of wall like that?

I do see that exporting to PDF is getting fairly slow at 40 pages, but not to the point where it's a problem. #Blender3D #FreeStyle #NPR3D #LineArt #art # #ColoringBook
Sep 20, 2025 at 10:53pmWeb