&gt; PDF does not support blur, let alone PS. The only workaround you have is to convert blur to bitmap before exporting. <br><br>I think inkscape needs a pre-flight dialog then which gives you errors, warnings and messages concerning your export, otherwise the inexperianced user will struggle to understand why blur failed to export, much less how they can get around the issue. CorelDRAW has a rather nice example of a pre-flight dialog for printing.<br><br><font face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif" size="2"><hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"><strong>From</strong>: "bulia byak" &lt;buliabyak@...400...&gt;<br><strong>Sent</strong>: 23 August 2007 23:51<br><strong>To</strong>: "Adib Taraben" &lt;taraben.a@...1512...&gt;<br><strong>Subject</strong>: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Time to start thinking about a release?</font><br><br>On 8/23/07, Adib Taraben <taraben.a@...1512...> wrote:<br>&gt; also we need to mark the things that _have to_ go into the release.<br>&gt; I do a lot of technical drawings and for me it is absolutely necessary<br>&gt; to include the blur into the pdf and ps export formats.<br><br>PDF does not support blur, let alone PS. The only workaround you have<br>is to convert blur to bitmap before exporting. We may eventually add<br>an option to do this automatically but I don't think it's particularly<br>high priority because the workaround is easy (just press Alt+B).<br><br>-- <br>bulia byak<br>Inkscape. Draw Freely.<br>http://www.inkscape.org<br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc.<br>Still grepping through log files to find problems?  Stop.<br>Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser.<br>Download your FREE copy of Splunk now &gt;&gt;  http://get.splunk.com/<br>_______________________________________________<br>Inkscape-devel mailing list<br>Inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<br>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel<br><br></taraben.a@...1512...>