I just downloaded a vector graphics set in .ai format from: http://www.webalys.com/design-interface ... mework.php.

When opening the file library-colors.ai in Adobe Reader, it looks different than it does in Inkscape. What could be the problem and how can I make Inkscape show it as it does in Adobe Reader?

The difference is the glass/shadow effect:



Thanks in advance.

Anyone an idea of what could be the reason?

Hi pimvdb,

Welcome to InkscapeForum!

Unfortunately I don't know what's happening, and apparently no one who's read your message so far, knows the answer either. But I wanted to say "welcome". And hang in there. Weekends tend to be a bit slow here, but surely someone will log on soon who knows the answer.

It looks like inkscape is doing a better job of reading the ai file than reader, which is not easy to fix
You actually want to remove the blend effect and replace it with a hard rectangle/solid fill?
I went to the page in your post but could not see exactly which ai file you are referring to, so I can't tell if this is a gradient or an opacity mask...
If you would care to upload the svg we can take a look. Though usually people want to go in the other direction .

Thanks for your reactions

Actually, how Adobe Reader opens the file is more to my liking, so I'd rather have Inkscape open it that way

As I only know how to convert .ai to .svg using Inkscape, this is the .svg file created by Inkscape (i.e. in which that glass effect is lost):
http://scoverview.netai.net/library-colors.svg
And this is the original .ai file (it is called library_color.ai, I made a mistake in my first post):
http://scoverview.netai.net/library-color.ai

Thanks in advance

I see what the problem is, the gradients are defined differently in ai and pdf from inkscape, but I don't see an easy way to fix it!
You can manually move the four gradient stops (for any one of your objects) to the locations in the image below.



If you are adept at text editing, you could then do some quick cutting and pasting in a text editor in the gradient defs section of your svg file to make the gradient stops for each gradient have the same numbers as your modified gradient.

Some one more fluent in xml might know of a substitution for "userspaceon use" in the gradientunits and "pad" in the spread in gradient defs that would have fix the output.

I had to play around a little as I downloaded Inkscape only a few days ago, but I managed to make it have the shadow effect.

Thanks!