dataloss on importing PDF images with internal importer

[uwestoehr]

This bug is new in Inkscape 0.92:

Attached is a PDF image.
- open it with a PDF viewer of your choice (Adobe Reader, Sumatra PDF etc.) to see how the PDF looks.
- now open it with Inkscape 0.92. Inkscape will ask you how to import. Use the default settings (which is the internal importer) and import.

Result: the colors are lost.

This bug only occurs if one uses the internal importer. The import via Poppler brings the correct result.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Thanks for the report, Uwe!

Unfortunately the bug is not new. I can reproduce it on Xubuntu 16.04 with Inkscape 0.91 and 0.92.

Manually removing the element with id="mask3724" fixes the issue.

[uwestoehr (uwestoehr)]

> Manually removing the element with id="mask3724" fixes the issue.

But why can Poppler handle this? Also Adobe Acrobat does not have any problems with this PDF. SO I think it is a bug in the internal importer of Inkscape and not in the PDF.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

uwestoehr> SO I think it is a bug in the internal importer of Inkscape and not in the PDF.

Exactly. That's the reason why the report is marked "triaged" and not "invalid".

[Nathan Lee (nathan.lee)]

Hi - thanks for reporting this bug, I've manually migrated it to Inkscape's new bug tracker on GitLab, and closed it here. We don't really have a suitable label that meets out needs (per https://alpha.inkscape.org/bug-migration/), so we mark these bugs Invalid.

Please feel free to file new bugs about the issues you're seeing at http://inkscape.org/report.

And if you remember/know how the pdf was generated, please share (I know, it's been 3+ years!).

Moved to: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/4039
Closed by: https://gitlab.com/nathanal