Missing elements when exporting to PDF

Zanmatt · Postby **Zanmatt** » Sat May 06, 2017 8:24 pm

Hello,

For work I have to work quite heavily with GIS software, usually preparing the maps and exporting them to SVG for editing with Inkscape. Usually all goes well but in the last couple of days I've noticed that sometimes graduated symbols (bubbles) cannot be exported to PDF.

I've attached an example file with only the bubbles. They are perfectly visible there on the SVG but disappear when exporting to PDF. This does not happen every time, only occasionally. I've made sure that there are no groups in the file and that all objects are paths. Any ideas how this could be solved?

Thank you very much!

tylerdurden · Postby **tylerdurden** » Sat May 06, 2017 10:30 pm

It seems the strokes on the objects are interfering. They will output to pdf if the strokes are turned off, so I'd go that way if it works for you.

Zanmatt · Postby **Zanmatt** » Sat May 06, 2017 10:39 pm

Ah of course the strokes! Didn't realize I hadn't removed them in the versions where this didn't work.

Works perfectly now, thank you.

tylerdurden · Postby **tylerdurden** » Sat May 06, 2017 11:21 pm

Yeah, I'm really not sure why the strokes cause a problem, but if turning them off works for your project, all's well that ends well, I guess...

Lazur · Postby **Lazur** » Sun May 07, 2017 12:42 am

Probably this.

tylerdurden · Postby **tylerdurden** » Sun May 07, 2017 1:19 am

Not sure... I think there is some malformed code hiding in the conversion. My test file including a similar object renders the added object ok in pdf, and copying its style (with similar stroke width) to the problem object resolves the problem object's failure to render in pdf.

tylerdurden · Postby **tylerdurden** » Sun May 07, 2017 1:29 pm

Issue not reproduced with 0.91 WinXP.

Seems 0.92x needs style attributes to also include:

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stroke-dasharray:none;stroke-dashoffset:0;stroke-opacity:1;paint-order:stroke markers fill

Adding that snippet to the style of the yellow circle allows export to pdf.

Zanmatt · Postby **Zanmatt** » Mon May 08, 2017 4:32 pm

Thank you very much for all your help. I should have specified I'm using Inkscape 0.91 with Windows 10.

The issue was fixed by removing the strokes, but it actually also worked when I changed the stroke line and color (default width is set at 0.032, which might be too small for Inkscape to export?).

tylerdurden · Postby **tylerdurden** » Mon May 08, 2017 9:54 pm

Zanmatt wrote:TI should have specified I'm using Inkscape 0.91 with Windows 10.

That's interesting... considering the document exports to pdf fine on my .91 WinXP (32bit) machine, which uses Cairo 1.11.2 (In pdf, Menu: File>Properties).

Maybe the Cairo version is different in the 64bit version?

Moini · Postby **Moini** » Mon May 08, 2017 11:36 pm

It is, I think. That's also where the black printing issues stem from, as far as I understand.

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