I have established a pattern of using blurred drop shadow in the diagrams I produce for technical manuals. I've used Adobe Illustrator in the past and I am attempting to switch to Inkscape. I find that Inkscape does not save EPS files with that blurred drop shadow.
The only reason I am saving my Inkscape diagram as EPS is that my publishing tool (RenderX XEP) doesn't seem to support the blurred drop shadow in SVG either.
I ran a simple test in which I created an SVG Inkscape diagram with the blurred drop shadow. It looks perfect in Firefox. Then I saved it as EPS. I opened the SVG diagram with Illustrator, saved as the Illustrator format, and then saved the Illustrator diagram as EPS. So I have two EPS files that should contain the same diagram.
http://sites.google.com/site/filessharedbypeter/Home/graphic-test-inkscape.e...
http://sites.google.com/site/filessharedbypeter/Home/graphic-test-inkscape-t...
I placed both diagrams in a document and published it to PDF. The Inkscape EPS file does not blur the shadow. The Illustrator EPS file does blur the shadow. Here's the PDF.
http://sites.google.com/site/filessharedbypeter/Home/graphic-test.pdf
My environment is Windows XP and Inkscape 0.46. My copy of Illustrator is CS2. I publish PDF documents using DocBook XML, RenderX XEP 4.15, and GPL Ghostscript 8.62.
Is there a way to get Inkscape to save the blur in the shadow in EPS? Here's the original SVG for my test.
http://sites.google.com/site/filessharedbypeter/Home/graphic-test-inkscape.s...
Thanks for your help.
Peter Desjardins