PDF export drops gradient style property inherited from parent group

[George Yohng]

PDF file is not rendered correctly. Some objects, which are of a partial opacity in Inkscape, are rendered fully opaque in PDF.

(Attached image: Check the santas beard, and fur parts on the coat)

P.S., I have seen similar closed bugs on Launchpad, but this has been tested with the latest (0.48) release - and the bug is still there.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

I'm not sure what this report is about: Incorrect export to PDF from Inkscape or incorrect PDF import?
Could you attach the original PDF file, if your issue is about incorrect import?

[George Yohng (georgeis)]

I have made 'save as...', and did not reimport PDF. So Inkscape simply has changed the window title, but it looks exactly as when it has just loaded SVG.

[George Yohng (georgeis)]

P.S. Just to clarify, the original is SVG, not PDF.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Reproduced with Inkscape 0.48+devel r9737 on OS X 10.5.8

Attaching reduced test case:
The paths that export incorrectly to PDF are without individual 'style' attributes inside a group which defines the style (opacity, fill gradient). In the exported PDF drawing the paths are rendered without gradient but only with a reduced opacity black (unset) fill.

Ungrouping and regrouping causes to store the style information with both the group members (paths) and the group itself (that's what Inkscape normally does, unless one manually edits the file in the XML Editor or outside of Inkscape). The paths now export to PDF as expected (each path has a gradient fill with reduced opacity).

[su_v (suv-lp)]

exported to PDF with default export settings (Inkscape 0.48+devel r9737, Cairo 1.8.10)

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Possibly related to or duplicate of
Bug #514696 “group fill color is unset in PDF export in 0.47”:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/514696>

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Linking a duplicate to bug #514696. Please add a comment here and revert the duplicate status if you don't agree and think these are different issues that need to be addressed separately.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

oops - sorry, added bug task to the wrong bug.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Duplicate status (duplicate of bug #514696) reverted: issue still present in current trunk (r10653), whereas bug #514696 no longer occurs after r10200.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

On OS X 10.7.5, with cairo >= 1.12.16:
- reproduced with Inkscape 0.48.5
- not reproduced Inkscape 0.91+devel r13829
- not reproduced with Inkscape 0.91pre3 r13760