Problem with Pdf with embedded image

Bug #1249617 reported by lorenzo castrico
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Bug Description

Hello,
When i open the attached pdf(that contains an embedded image) in inkscape i get bad results.
It seems like inkscape try to "vectorialize" the background image.

[Adobe illustrator opens the pdf correctly and converts it to svg. If i open the resulting svg using inkscape everything is fine.]

Inkscape 0.48.4 r9939
Windows 8 x64 ITA, Windows server 2003 x64 ENG, Windows server 2012 x64 ENG

Thanks
Kind regards

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lorenzo castrico (2-bnfo-g) wrote :
su_v (suv-lp)
tags: added: importing pdf
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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

The PDF file does not contain any bitmap images at all - this is about converting meshes to SVG.

tags: added: gradient-mesh
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Tavmjong Bah (tavmjong-free) wrote :

I've looked at the file Fondo_02.pdf. It does contain a mesh with 143 patches. This kind of mesh cannot be imported into Inkscape as a single mesh as SVG meshes require a grid structure and the 143 patches don't form a grid with a constant number of rows and columns.

The current "native" PDF importer converts a mesh into a group of "tiles". Each mesh patch corresponds results in one or more tiles where each tile is a path object with a solid color. (The number depends on a parameter set in the PDF import dialog.) It is possible to change that so that each patch is imported as a path object filled by a mesh with a single patch. It should also be possible in the future to turn off automatically the anti-aliasing for the patches.

Eventually, SVG 2 will allow multiple fills for a single object in which case one could have one object filled by multiple single patch meshes.

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Tavmjong Bah (tavmjong-free) wrote :

Lorenzo, can you add the Adobe Illustrator produced SVG?

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