If you are sufficiently motivated, note that there are 3 different PDF export mechanisms that have been implemented, that you could experiment with if you wished. Unfortunately none of the three are perfect, but each has its advantages (and disadvantages.)

Sorry this isn't the answer you'd probably wish, but the PDF support is a work in progress. Hopefully one day it'll be working better; your testing and reports of your findings could help us get there sooner!

Bryce

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 10:03:44AM +0000, Phil Hendry wrote:

Hi folks,

I'm trying to work out a way of integrating Inkscape into my workflow. Indesign CS2 doesn't support SVG import. Saving as PDF from Inkscape seems a wee bit flaky - I used a pattern fill in a couple of places, and that had disappeared when I opened the PDF. The EPS export, of course, doesn't support transparency - I suppose I could 'flatten' the transparency somehow, so it appeared to export - but that seems a lot of work. EPS export also seemed to screw up the fonts, but that's no surprise, and I can export them as curves - but it also lost the pattern fills. PNG export works fine, but then I'm up against all the 'issues' of using bitmaps.

Ho, hum. Frustrating. Of all the drawing packages I've tried since switching to the Mac, Inkscape is the most promising - far easier to use than Illustrator and with a similar (but better?) feature set. A 'pukka' OS X version would probably answer the PDF export problem, since printing to PDF on the Mac works so well - I often use it where other export methods fall down. I must find a way around this issue

• I'm b*gg*r*d if I'm going back to fighting with Illustrator when I

need a drawing.

Phil