On 31/3/10 16:32, CoD wrote:

System: Kubuntu 9.10 with KDE 4.3.2 Inkscape: devel version and 0.46 (See below) Reproducible: yes

These are the steps I did:

1. I drew a simple icon with inkscape (a circle and a polygon)
2. I save it as svg or svgz (get the file here [1])
3. The preview on my kubuntu 9.10 looks crazy (get the preview here [2])

as if nodes position has been screwed

4. I open the svg file with Inkscape 0.46

5. I change the color of an element and save again

6. The preview still looks crazy

7. I open the file again with Inkscape 0.46 but this time I move the

polygon around, then I place it in the old position and save 8) The preview looks perfect, as if nodes position has been restored (get the file and the preview here [3][4])

I can't really understand what's going on here but seems that KDE 4 has troubles when previewing svg/svgz files saved with inkscape > 0.46 This happens also using ksvgtopng to convert an svg file to a png

Could this possibly be related to bug 170049 [5] ?

I think it could be similar to bug #458388 “Rendering errors in QtSvgRenderer due to changed SVG output in Inkscape 0.47”: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/458388

«issue is optimized path data. Files saved in Inkscape 0.47 are incorrectly rendered in QtSvgRenderer of KDE 4.5 (straight line segments are omitted). unconfirmed workaround: 'Force Repeat Commands'»

You could test it by changing the preferences of 'SVG output > Path data' whether forcing repeated commands or not allowing relative coordinates creates SVG files that are rendered without error in KDE's svg previewer (you'll have to create a new icon or move all paths of an existing drawing to have the path data rewritten with the changed preferences - that's what happened when you opened the 0.47 file in Inkscape 0.46 and moved the polygon around)

hth, ~suv