Thanks everyone, especially Brynn. Your solution worked. In addition, it corrected another little eccentricity, which is that the pdf version showed rounded ends (opposite end of the arrows on the line) while inkscape showed squared off ends. Adding a node on the line removed it. You can see this to...

Hello, I use inkscape to make figures for scientific papers. Every once in awhile I get problems like the following, and I have not been able to resolve them. I have a simple figure (attached in .svg and .pdf) containing only text and lines with arrows. It looks perfect in Inkscape, but on export th...