Tee shirt logo

Robm1955

I'm looking for advice, so it's not really a problem. I'm learning how to use Incscape, a free vector graphics program, which is great, and easy to use. I've seen various videos, on YouTube, how to create, a logo. What I don't know, and can't find this in any of the videos, is about scaling, and getting your logo the right size. What I'm looking to do, is create a circular logo, which will go on the left breast of a tee shirt. When creating the logo, some of the videos I've seen, tell you to turn the page border off, in your view, so when I've created the logo, and turned on the page border, for an A4 page, I have to re-scale the image, and some of the detail is lost. Hope someone can give me some advice. Thanks.

EchoLocation

I've not used Inkscape for many years, but surely the whole point in vector images is that they scale infinitely. So I would have thought any scaling comes into effect during the printing process? If you're losing detail then I presume you have saved/converted as a raster image?

Robm1955

No, I've just saved the document, so I'm assuming it's in .svg. I'll check thanks.

EchoLocation

Was the entire thing created as a vector image? or did you import some/all of it from an original raster image?

Robm1955

A couple of elements, were brought in as rasters, then using the trace bitmap, converted to vector. It's seems to be ok now, but still not sure how to scale it for a t-shirt.
EDIT: what size, that is.

EchoLocation

I would imagine (am only guessing here) maybe that you set the workspace measurement to your required units, then scale the grouped design to your required size and then fit the page size to the contents.

Paula_Smith

How are you going to get it onto the T shirt?
Are you doing it yourself by printing onto an iron on paper?
If you are going to use an online printing co like Vistaprint (others are available) then you should be able to scale the image to suit on their web site.