6 Oct
2008
6 Oct
'08
7:02 p.m.
Most likely because cairo had to rasterize some parts of image that cannot be in PDF.
It doesn't seem that anything beyond the original bitmap image was rasterized, just placed into patterns.
The structure of the output PDF is the responsibility of cairo.
Ok, I'll rebuild inkscape with a more recent version of cairo, and if the problem persists I'll see with the cairo guys. Thanks for the explanations! g