On 13/11/10 01:58, Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
I am trying to export (save copy as) to PDF, and the filter effects on a particular piece of SVG from openclipart render poorly.
http://www.openclipart.org/detail/35389
The rings circling the globe and the four flare-effect points with circular gradients are greatly enlarged on PDF export, washing out most of the globe effect behind a white gradient.
Is this an inherent limitation of the current state of PDF export?
The graphic is proportionally scaled larger than its original size, e.g. 3" diameter on printed output. It looks exactly right as SVG, but are the gradients getting scaled incorrectly on PDF output?
I did try the option to rasterize filter effects, but that did not change the rendered output much. It may well have rasterized, but the gradients were still the same over-size.
I am using Inkscape bzr trunk on Gentoo Linux ~amd64.
Attaching a screenshot displaying the SVG and PDF... looks ok to me. Export tested with - Inkscape 0.48+devel r9890 on OS X 10.5.8, (cairo 1.10); - default PDF export settings (rasterize filter effects with 90dpi); - default PDF viewer on OS X: Preview.app.
Which PDF viewer did you use to compare the rendering of the SVG and PDF file? Can you attach a screenshot and the PDF file itself?
~suv
