I think that I can answer most of your questions by just posting the original pdf file. It's attached. It's a pdf file produced by my Canon scanner. Try this: ⋅ open the scanned document ( PDF ) in Inkscape ⋅ Add a new layer ⋅ Select all objects in the original layer, ...

... You said "I absolutely need a pdf file saved as my goal is to use the resulting pdf file in an iPad app which requires pdf files." I'm curious why you're using Inkscape to create test files for your app. Surely PDFs created with Adobe itself would be truly correct PDF files, while con...

I appreciate all of the help I am getting here. I think that I can answer most of your questions by just posting the original pdf file. It's attached. It's a pdf file produced by my Canon scanner. No complaint from Inkscape when I open it. And no complaint when I save it as a pdf file. (Just as an e...

Good to hear your system didn't crash on importing raster images! (On windows and especially 64 bit version there is a known bug.) Test the pdf if inkscape can re-open it, without an error. If the pdf itself doesn't look good/doesn't open, would suggest to try a previous release. Pdf save options s...

Good to hear your system didn't crash on importing raster images! (On windows and especially 64 bit version there is a known bug.) Test the pdf if inkscape can re-open it, without an error. If the pdf itself doesn't look good/doesn't open, would suggest to try a previous release. Pdf save options s...

Latest, freshly downloaded, Adobe Reader gives exactly the same error message.

A good point/question brynn. About/Help says Adobe Reader XI Version 11.0.11. It looks like the copyright statement was last updated in 2012. I will look for something more recent. And no I don't need Adobe Reader for the iPad app. I only opened the result in Adobe Reader to test the result of the I...

I have several minutes of experience with Inkscape (0.91) but this one puzzles me! I created a pdf by scanning a piece of sheet music on my Canon scanner. Opened it in Inkscape. Added (i.e. pasted) two images which I copied from MS Paint. Saved the result as a pdf (using all default options). But wh...