Inkscape Display and PDFLatex differ

[Oliver Sampson]

I created a simple file in Inkscape and then adusted the size of the canvas to match the drawing. When including this file in a latex document via inkscapes command line PDF_TEX mechanism as detailed in http://mirrors.ctan.org/info/svg-inkscape/InkscapePDFLaTeX.pdf, the drawing is significantly different.

[Oliver Sampson (olsam)]

I've inluded screen shots both of the Inkscape view and the view within the PDF generated from PDFLatex.

Kile calls inkscape from the command line to generate the pdf_tex file(s).

Additionally:

pdflatex -version
pdfTeX 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011)
kpathsea version 6.0.1
Copyright 2011 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the pdfTeX source.
Primary author of pdfTeX: Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
Compiled with libpng 1.5.2; using libpng 1.5.2
Compiled with zlib 1.2.5; using zlib 1.2.5
Compiled with xpdf version 3.02pl5

[su_v (suv-lp)]

The issue is not related to PDF export nor to PDF+LaTeX export: connector lines are incorrectly rerouted on document load - this occurs whenever the file is (re-)opened in Inkscape (GUI or command line).

The trigger is a combination of connected object types (Inkscape shapes) and their stack order relative to the connector lines: in this case, the second green circle (top right) is stacked on top of the connector lines. Attached modified file (all connectors are stacked on top of the connected shapes) exports fine to PDF (from the GUI and from the command line, with or without LaTeX support).

Linking as duplicate to
Bug #795627 “Connector between shapes is corrupted on load (stack order)”
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/795627>

Please add a comment here and revert the duplicate status if you don't agree and think these are different issues.