Greetings, all -

To get right to it, when I save a file as a PDF some objects move or resize. I can offset the objects to compensate but it gets a bit frustrating after a while. I searched the forum and Google but may have been a bit too ambiguous to achieve any good results. I must admit I'm not familiar enough with the PDF file format to really know what technical concept/term to search. If anyone has any suggestions on keeping objects "still" as they're exported I'd appreciate it.

Using Ubuntu 10.04; Inkscape 0.47

Thanks so much!

Can you post an sample SVG file the demonstrates the problem?

save your inkscape work as plain svg, then use scribus to go from .svg to .pdf

microUgly -

I attempted to replicate the issue but had no luck. The original file was a project for a friend (no immediate access at this point) but after a bit of troubleshooting it seems to be an issue with fonts as the PDF was being viewed cross-platform. Where I thought an object was moving in relation to text, it appears that the text had changed font/style (it was such a subtle difference I didn't realize it right-off but it did, indeed, change fonts). The conversion of everything to path proved effective and solved the problem with only minor touch-ups required. Thank you for your reply!

vwanweb -

Always excited to learn of new open source design software and this definitely caught my eye! I installed and everything went great and I'm sure it will be used extensively down the road.

Anyway, I have this "luck" about posting in forums - it never fails that as soon as I post something I blindly stumble across the solution/diagnosis..

Thanks so much to everyone!