Inkscape to tiled A4 and US Letter

What print-at-home tiles need

• ✓Pages laid out separately for A4 and for US Letter, since neither fits the other
• ✓An overlap between pages, with alignment marks on the shared edges
• ✓A tile ID on every page and an assembly map on page 1
• ✓The test square on page 1, and print scaling switched off
• ✓Every size on its own layer, so sewists print only theirs

By hand, tiling in Inkscape means a page per tile (Inkscape 1.2 and later has multiple pages) for each paper size, and the PDF loses the size layers.

The Sewpress way, from Inkscape

1. 1
   Set up your layers

   Use Layers and Objects to make one top-level layer per size (S, M, L) and shared layers starting with an underscore (_grainlines, _notches, _test). Sublayers are fine.

2. 2
   Export for Sewpress

   Save as Inkscape SVG. Inkscape layers are exactly what Sewpress reads. Inkscape's own PDF export doesn't keep layers as PDF layers, so upload the SVG.

3. 3
   Upload and check

   Since 0.92, Inkscape uses 96 units per inch, the same as Sewpress. Files made in older versions used 90, which reads as 93.75%; Sewpress spots that on the inspection screen.

4. 4
   Build print-at-home tiles

   Sewpress places your master once and builds tiled A4 and US Letter, measuring the test square in each.