Hi,
if I understand the issue correctly, the eps and pdf export was switched in the transition from version 0.46 to 0.47.
In my experience, the new eps export doesn't work well, producing larger files and also converting some vector elements to raster in an unpredictable way. The new pdf export seems to produce less rasterization but produces very large files that take a long time to render in a pdf viewer.
I suppose there was a reason for this transition, maybe gradients, transparency and such. However, where these features are not required, the old export routines seem to work better. Also, the old eps export could be used with LaTeX' psfrag mechanism, whereas the new export cannot do this.
So, my question is, could we have the old eps export back - as an additional option, or maybe as a user-installable extension?
Thanks for consideration, best. Michael
PS I attach 3 examples. ec046.pdf was produced via eps export in version 0.46 and epstopdf. The two other files were produced from the same svg in version 0.47, either directly to pdf or via eps export and epstopdf.