Re: [Inkscape-user] Opacity not 100% gets lost

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Adrian Johnson wrote:

When opacity is less than 100% a soft mask is used in the PDF file. Soft masks are something that not all PDF viewers correctly support. The PDF files created by Inkscape with opacity less than 100% renders fine in Adobe Reader and recent versions of Evince.

Generally whenever the PDF output does not appear correct you should check it with Adobe Reader as other PDF viewers sometimes have bugs or unimplemented features. This should probably be added to the Inkscape FAQ.

Thanks for the explanation.

In my case, the documents will be sent to a printer, so I have no control or understanding on what will render fine (except by paying for proof copies for testing).

Any workaround for this?