Re: [Inkscape-user] add fake transpareny without real transparency

Maarten van der Velde wrote:

Hey Martin,

The answer to similar questions posted earlier on this forum is always: "you can't" :( And that's because of the PDF/EPS format, that can't (officially?) handle transparancy.

This is true, but Inkscape could definitely do better than a bitmap copy in many cases. As long as you don't have two gradients getting mixed it should always be possible to convert overlapping polygons with transparency into equivalent non-overlapping polygons without transparency. I would recommend the original poster to check whether a feature request already exists and otherwise post it at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/

Obviously this wouldn't help your current situation, but it might get into the next version.