SVG exports as blank PDF

[Kent Boogaart]

Per this thread (https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=1091), I was creating an SVG in Inkscape and at some point it stopped exporting to PDF correctly (just exported as a blank page). It came down to matrix transforms in linear gradients. The SVG was edited entirely within Inkscape and I couldn't say exactly what action caused the matrix transforms to be added. I do know that I was copy/pasting existing bits of branding (not present in the attachment) to kick-start the next. However, I had already done this several times before things stopped working, so I'm not convinced it had anything to do with that. I did have to mess around with the palette a few times, so perhaps that's when things went awry.

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

- confirmed on Windows 10, Inkscape 0.92.3 (2405546, 2018-03-11)
- confirmed on Windows 10, Inkscape 0.92+devel (7f24a76, 2018-04-17)

exit message in DOS is:
** (inkscape.exe:8220): CRITICAL **: error while rendering output: invalid matrix (not invertible)

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

transforms of the type:
       gradientTransform="matrix(0,0,0,0,460.46556,-735.52614)"

are not invertible. attached is a modified version of the svg file, which will produce a pdf output

[Jakub Žádník (kubouch)]

An easy workaround is to use "Flat color" instead of "Swatch" in the Fill and Stroke window (Shift+Ctrl+F). You can still set your color from a swatch, just remember to click back the flat color - the color won't change. This also applies to Stroke paint. I couldn't fix the "$12 sessions$" circle since the text is not a separate object - it would just fill the whole circle with one color.

It is not really a solution but at least a workaround without editing the XML by hand.

[Jonathan Hofinger (jhofinger)]

This issue has been reportet to Inkscape's new Bugtracker on Gitlab. https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/748

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