bulia byak wrote:
On 7/4/06, Loïc Martin <lomartin3@...155...> wrote:
bulia byak a écrit :
So, you may try to export transparent PDF from Inkscape and print it from Acrobat. Whether this will be any better than printing bitmap I cannot say.
Thanks to everybody I was able to print my files with transparency (and still have a few hours of sleep ;) ). There's still the problem of text without transparency but that'll have to do for now
Currently Inkscape converts text to paths when doing PDF export. It may be that this conversion is buggy in that it loses transparency. You may try to work around that by converting your text to path manually before printing (this will preserve transparency in the resulting path).
I did some testing of the PDF export with one of my own images, and there still seem to be some quirks. I've put some example files online:
http://perswww.kuleuven.be/~u0039093/dl/tmp/cellmodel.svg
The resulting PDF:
http://perswww.kuleuven.be/~u0039093/dl/tmp/cellmodel.pdf
Two things to notice:
- transparency is obviously present, but it doesn't correspond to the original image.
- the colors seem to be slightly off (too brownish with regards to the original). Don't know if this is rendering related or caused by the export.
One important thing to add: the small "cell contents" particles are created as Clones, using varying transparency. This variation in transparency is completely absent in the PDF. However, unlinking the clones gives the same result in the exported PDF.
I hope this helps to pinpoint problems in the code...
Regards, Arnout