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
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Peter Desjardins<peter.desjardins.us@...155...> wrote:
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.
Please use 0.47 prerelease, it rasterizes any objects with filters when exporting to PS/EPS/PDF.
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:29 PM, bulia byak<buliabyak@...155...> wrote:
Please use 0.47 prerelease, it rasterizes any objects with filters when exporting to PS/EPS/PDF.
I've searched for the Inkscape 4.7 prerelease and I cannot find it. Is it the latest Win32 Snapshot here?
http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/Inkscape21502-0906061949.7z
Thanks again.
Peter
Peter Desjardins-2 wrote:
Is it the latest Win32 Snapshot here?
yes, that is the latest, you may need to install 7-zip to unzip it. http://www.7-zip.org/
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:29 PM, bulia byak<buliabyak@...155...> wrote:
Please use 0.47 prerelease, it rasterizes any objects with filters when exporting to PS/EPS/PDF.
I installed Inkscape 0.46+devel r21495, built Jun 5 2009. With this version, the blurred shadow is rasterized and is still blurred in the final PDF. Thanks!
However, I found that the entire diagram was rasterized in the EPS output. I thought that only the blurred effect would be rasterized. I made sure that the drop shadow object was not grouped with the other objects. I need as much of the diagrams as possible to remain vector in PDFs. I posted the final PDF here:
http://sites.google.com/site/filessharedbypeter/Home/graphic-test.pdf
I tried saving the diagram as PDF directly from Inkscape also. This time, the blur is rasterized but the rest of the diagram is not. This is what I was hoping for with EPS. It would not be simple for me to switch to using PDF for diagrams.
Is the EPS output rasterizing the entire diagram by design? If so, why is PDF output different?
Thanks.
Peter Desjardins
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Peter Desjardins<peter.desjardins.us@...155...> wrote:
Is the EPS output rasterizing the entire diagram by design? If so, why is PDF output different?
PDF supports vector transparency, EPS does not, so it rasterizes it. Eliminate any non-100% opacity to fix it.
That did solve the problem. The shadow object was only 60% opaque. Now that all objects are 100% opaque, the EPS diagram is vector except for the blurred shadow.
Thank you for your help!
Peter Desjardins
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:11 PM, bulia byak<buliabyak@...155...> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Peter Desjardins<peter.desjardins.us@...155...> wrote:
Is the EPS output rasterizing the entire diagram by design? If so, why is PDF output different?
PDF supports vector transparency, EPS does not, so it rasterizes it. Eliminate any non-100% opacity to fix it.
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