EPS Level 3 export Rasterized

[ToddB]

In Inkscape version 0.47 we now have a choice of level 2 or level 3 EPS export (the previous version was understood to be level 3 only). Now, when specifying level 3 output any file with regular (fully opaque, alpha 255) gradients seems to become rasterized (easily noticeable since the file size is way larger than it is supposed to be). When I export I have "Rasterize Filter Effects" set to off - but this is irrelevant anyway since a gradient is not an effect. I have tried to export different SVG files as EPS 3 and get the same result. I am attaching a sample Inkscape SVG file. Thanks.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

reproduced with Inkscape 0.46 and Inkscape 0.47 on OS X 10.5.8
looking at the EPS files however it seems as if the labels for 'Restrict to PS level' in the export dialog have been mixed up:

EPS exported as 'PostScript level 2':

%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
%%Creator: cairo 1.8.8 (http://cairographics.org)
%%CreationDate: Wed Dec 2 22:47:55 2009
%%Pages: 1
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 177 178
%%DocumentData: Clean7Bit
%%LanguageLevel: 3
%%EndComments
%%BeginProlog

EPS exported as 'PostScript level 3':

%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
%%Creator: cairo 1.8.8 (http://cairographics.org)
%%CreationDate: Wed Dec 2 22:48:13 2009
%%Pages: 1
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 177 178
%%DocumentData: Clean7Bit
%%LanguageLevel: 2
%%EndComments
%%BeginProlog

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Same issue (Language level 3 as export option creates level 2 files, Language level 2 as export option creates level 3 files) with bitmaps which have a transparent background (even worse when they are clipped, possibly due to bug in cairo 1.8.x):

Bug #585286 “Exporting SVG with transparent embedded PNG causes excessive blurriness”:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/585286>

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Patch proposed in
Bug #698340 in Inkscape: “PS Level Restriction reversed”
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/698340>

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Fix committed in the trunk, revision 10000.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Also committed in the 0.48.x branch, revision 9754.