On 12/10/2010 16:58, John Culleton wrote:

On Tuesday 12 October 2010 08:18:14 Alexander Bonivento wrote:

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Hello again,

I noticed a strange bug that happens on newer inkscape version. In the attached archive you can see the svg file i'm trying to convert into PDF.

The file b.pdf was created with Inkscape 0.46 (Apr 5 2008), and it looks fine. File a.pdf was created with Inkscape 0.47 r22583 (Jan 20 2010), and does not preserve the fill transparency of the simple shape. Both files were created via commandline on linux servers, with the sintax: inkscape -z clip.svg --export-pdf=a.pdf --export-text-to-path

To check, i've also tried the very last version, 0.48, installed in windows. I've opened the svg file, then i simply saved it as PDF: result is identical to the wrong file a.pdf

Any idea?

Thanks in advance,

Alex

My results duplicate yours. But what is the fill inside the rectangle? I only see white space in Inkscape 48 and black fill when saved as pdf. I also get some error messages when I load your svg file.

I also note that your svg file is created in Corel Draw, which could be part of the problem:

<!-- Creator: CorelDRAW --

That clipart is just one of hundreds cliparts i have to work with. This conversion will be done automatically within my servers to compose vector outputs. Many of then are created in Corel, however the syntax of the SVG file is ok. Technically talking, it seems what's ignored while exporting in PDF is the fill-rule value.

Instead of the written value "fill-rule: evenodd;" it behaves like it's written "fill-rule: nonzero;". Infact, if you will try to set to "nonzero" the value of fill-rule into the opening svg tag, the same issue (black fill) will happen also into inkscape itself. I know that "clip-rule: evenodd" isn't supported, but fill-rule should be. Not to mention, again, that it works with the older 0.46 release.

Is downgrading to 0.46 really my only way out?