Transparency reduced pdf export
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Inkscape |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
As stated on the developers mailinglist:
Hi,
I just checked out the snapshot release of Inkscape
0.44, wich is just great, thank you very much! I
really love the new pdf export with transparency
support and the "crop to image size" button in the page
properties.
But I also have a little question. Printing such pdf
files with transparency isn't simple and transparency
is removed. I think there should be two types of pdf
export functionality. One of them is the one that's
now included, the other one should be a mix between
bitmap output and scalable pdf output. I mean: it
should be great when you could let Inkscape "render"
the image and count the resulting colors when the
different semi-transparent layers are added to
eachother. The result should be scalable but without
transparency. This way, the image printed is the same
as how you could see it at the screen.
What do you think of this?
Kind regards,
Peter Dedecker
Changed in inkscape: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Sounds like RFE #1255734 -- Transparency "emulation" for
postscript output -- but then for Pdf instead of postscript.
Anyway, the vector/bitmap mix might come with the new
Cairo-based Pdf exporter (might still need a patched
developer's version of Cairo for best results, though..).
Please try it in Svn trunk.