Inkscape saving to EMF and reopening looses a lot of formatting and text

[Joel Obrecht]

When I try to save to EMF format a svg created in Inkscape, it doesn't keep the formatting and text when reopening (reimporting) in Inkscape.

See attachment

Inkscape: 0.91
System: Arch Linux up-to-date i686

[David Mathog (mathog)]

Most of it looks OK when I do it on a recent trunk, see attached.

The loss of color in the upper right rectangle and associated text is because the original SVG uses opacity there. EMF doesn't support that property. There are also two copies of the rectangle and two of the text, which further muddies the water.

Try replacing that rectangle/text with a single rectangle in a solid color, and drag over it the desired text, again in a solid (opacity = 1) color.

[David Mathog (mathog)]

This is just the problem rectangle. Look at the SVG source code and note all the opacity values which are not 1.

[David Mathog (mathog)]

This section looks to be in the same style in the original SVG as the problem rectangle text. But if you examine it with an editor you will see that all the opacity values are 1. It exports and imports fine.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

There seems to be a locale-dependent issue involved too (see bug #1425317), at least with the reporter's EMF file.

[Joel Obrecht (joel-obrecht)]

Thank you for your work ! It looks indeed much much better now !!!

[su_v (suv-lp)]

On 2015-11-05 06:44 (+0100), ~suv wrote:
> There seems to be a locale-dependent issue (…)

Nevermind (I misinterpreted my earlier results via command line). When using the GUI and unchecking all EMF export options enabled by default, or only keeping 'Map Unicode to Symbol font', the Ballot symbols are ok (for roundtrip-editing in Inkscape); both with 0.91 and current trunk (on OS X 10.7.5).

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Reproduced on Windows XP, Inkscape trunk rev. 14527.