Hello,

thiss issue occurs on a regular basis: In an inkscape svg i have started with a gradient background on the full page.

It looks fine in .svg, it is correct when exported to .png, but exporting to .pdf, some parts of the area lost the gradient colour completely.

i try to include examples. Is anyone out there experiencing the same issue? Or any ideas to get the problem solved?

Working with Inkscape 0.48.3.1 r9886
on an Ubuntu Linux System (probably some old 9.x Version).

Thanks and regards

Pu der Baer

The pdf with problems:


As PNG the whole gradient looks fine:

Can you also share the svg file?

Thanks.

Hi.

Not sure what to see, it looks "fine" to me.
As far as svg gradients go -bluring can make them smoother. Which is a raster based filter, that would get rasterised in pdf-s so not a good choice.

Apart these, the gradient was going from a colour to transparency, which got implemented with masking in your pdf.
Another note, pdf-s have a non-transparent white background colour, that makes it look different than the png displayed here for example.

Does the problem occour if you not involve transparency/alpha channel in the gradient?