Pattern not exported to pdf or printed (cairo >= 1.12)

[Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca]

Hello

I created a "petit pois" pattern that is simply ignored when printing or exporting to PFD. Exporting to PNG works.

I'm using inkscape-trunk on ubuntu15.04 fully updated.

Attached an example file. rsvg-convert exports it correcly.

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

- not reproduced on Windows 7, 32 bit, Inkscape 0.91 r13725 (Jan 30 2015)
- not reproduced on Windows XP, recent trunk version
- result attached here
- could you indicate which export settings you were using?

[su_v (suv-lp)]

On 2015-08-24 17:39 (+0200), Alvin Penner wrote:
> - not reproduced on Windows 7, 32 bit, Inkscape 0.91 r13725

Win32 devlibs use cairo 1.11.2.

On OS X 10.7.5 (64bit)
- reproduced with Inkscape 0.91 r13725, 0.91+devel r14319
  (trunk tested with cairo 1.12.2 and cairo 1.14.2)

Using older releases which ship with older packages of cairo:
- nor reproduced with Inkscape 0.48.2 32bit (i386): cairo 1.10.2
- reproduced with Inkscape 0.48.2 64bit (x86_64): cairo 1.12.2
- reproduced with Inkscape 0.48.5 32bit (i386): cairo 1.12.16

Likely related to or a duplicate of
* Bug #1462589 “When saving to pdf at certain page size, a pattern disappears.”
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1462589
or
* Bug #1390569 “SVG fill pattern lost on PDF export”
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1390569

[Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca (luizluca)]

Alvin,

I tested multiple PDF settings without changes in result. As pointed by
others, it is a UNIX related problem. I'll try to find a win machine to
export my file.

Currently, as a bad workaround, I'm applying a innocuous effect on the
pattern in order to force rasterization on it when exporting to PDF.

Regards,

Em seg, 24 de ago de 2015 às 13:15, ~suv <email address hidden>
escreveu:

> On 2015-08-24 17:39 (+0200), Alvin Penner wrote:
> > - not reproduced on Windows 7, 32 bit, Inkscape 0.91 r13725
>
> Win32 devlibs use cairo 1.11.2.
>
> On OS X 10.7.5 (64bit)
> - reproduced with Inkscape 0.91 r13725, 0.91+devel r14319
> (trunk tested with cairo 1.12.2 and cairo 1.14.2)
>
> Using older releases which ship with older packages of cairo:
> - nor reproduced with Inkscape 0.48.2 32bit (i386): cairo 1.10.2
> - reproduced with Inkscape 0.48.2 64bit (x86_64): cairo 1.12.2
> - reproduced with Inkscape 0.48.5 32bit (i386): cairo 1.12.16
>
> Likely related to or a duplicate of
> * Bug #1462589 “When saving to pdf at certain page size, a pattern
> disappears.”
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1462589
> or
> * Bug #1390569 “SVG fill pattern lost on PDF export”
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1390569
>
> ** Tags added: cairo
>
> ** Changed in: inkscape
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
>
> ** Changed in: inkscape
> Status: New => Confirmed
>
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1488129
>
> Title:
> Pattern not exported to pdf or printed
>
> Status in Inkscape:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Hello
>
> I created a "petit pois" pattern that is simply ignored when printing
> or exporting to PFD. Exporting to PNG works.
>
> I'm using inkscape-trunk on ubuntu15.04 fully updated.
>
> Attached an example file. rsvg-convert exports it correcly.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
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[su_v (suv-lp)]

On 2015-08-24 21:12 (+0200), Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca wrote:
> it is a UNIX related problem.

Not really - AFAICT it varies depending on the cairo version used by Inkscape (which may differ on different Linux distros too). Likely this problem also reproduces with the 64bit packages of Inkscape for Windows (since it also includes a newer version of cairo: 1.14.1) - if you plan to resort to Windows to work around this issue, be sure to use 32bit installer package for Inkscape.

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

My cairo version is 1.13.0~20140204-0ubuntu1.1, and I get a fully pink border without any dots on pdf export (LM 17.2, 64bit, Inkscape 0.91).

[Qantas94Heavy (qantas94heavy)]

Can't reproduce this issue with Inkscape 1.0alpha (b1f1f5d, 2019-03-22) and cairo 1.16.0 when viewing in Evince.

However, for some reason the dots will disappear in Okular below a certain zoom size. As I'm assuming this is an Okular issue, closing as no longer valid.

Closed by: https://gitlab.com/Qantas94Heavy