"Hatching" fill effect renders when .svg is opened directly, but not when it is imported into an existing document

[Alistair Muldal]

I've noticed some strange behavior while importing .svg images containing a "cross-hatching" effect (the images are plots generated by matplotlib). When I <Open...> such an image directly in Inkscape, the hatching displays correctly, but if I <Import...> the image into an existing project then the hatching does not appear.

To reproduce the problem, create a new document then try to import this example image into it: http://imgh.us/test_hatching.svg. The same image will render correctly if you open it directly, or if you copy-paste it into the document rather than going via the <Import...> dialog.

I can reproduce the bug in v0.91 and in a recent trunk build (0.91.0+devel+14178+59~ubuntu15.04.1).

[Ben Scholzen 'DASPRiD' (dasprid)]

Confirmed. It seems like there are three <svg:defs> in the file, but only the first one is imported. The hatching pattern itself is defined in the last <svg:defs>.

[Ben Scholzen 'DASPRiD' (dasprid)]

I have prepared a patch which solves the problem. If it looks okay, I can merge it to trunk.

[Ben Scholzen 'DASPRiD' (dasprid)]

New patch based on discussion on IRC.

[Ben Scholzen 'DASPRiD' (dasprid)]

Fix committed with revision 14185.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Backporting to 0.91.x needs testing (diff doesn't apply as it), but might work (according to Mc-).

[Alistair Muldal (alimuldal)]

Excellent - I can confirm that 14185 resolved the issue for me. Really appreciate the quick fix!

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Fix backported to 0.91.x in rev 13797.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

@Mc - could you please verify that the backport is ok? It tested ok with two local 0.91.x builds, but I'd be glad for a second check.

trunk:
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/revision/14185
0.91.x:
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/RELEASE_0_91_BRANCH/revision/13797

[Mc (mc...)]

Cannot reproduce the described problem with the diff applied in 0.91.x r13825 either