Dear brynn, This is coming two weeks late, but I finally had time to address the transparency issue. Thanks for your step-by-step guide---I'll no doubt return to the guide when I have to do it again! Also: An automated transparency-removal tool (or flattening tool) would be incredibly helpful in Ink...

Let me know if you need instructions for the node editing :D Brynn, you caught me! :( As you noticed, I already tried to place nodes at the right places in the SVG file to implement the idea you suggested. However, I couldn't figure out how to do the node editing so as to break up the closed path i...

I have this image file, which has a very slight transparency. You can see the top surface has some transparency. Eventually, I'll need to save this as an EPS file, which means I need to flatten the transparency. I'd be super grateful if someone could have a look at my SVG file, if they knew a quick ...

Is there a way to get Inkscape to save your images which were designed using opacity options WITHOUT actual opacity, but keeping the same look? For example, I can save the image as a JPEG, then convert it to EPS. The problem is that you of course lose the vectorized data. But is there a way to get t...

No, thanks.

I found a better workaround (basically a LaTeX extension on Inkscape) that deals with the unicode problem. But I appreciate the help and it's good I know the source of the problem at least.

Can other people try and see if they can get unicode into their PDF exporting as well? Perhaps this is a platform thing. Can you provide the SVG file? If not, what font and unicode are you using? For reference, I see that fonts are clearer than paths in PDF. I don't have pdf2ps, does the font remai...

I don't believe the paths are as sharp as when the font is preserved when shrunken down, is it? When text is converted to path it should be identical. Because fonts and paths are both vector, both will scale equally. EDIT: I think some fonts have smarts that can adjust their presentation for smalle...

Can Inkscape embed fonts into a PDF? I know you can when saving as EPS from Inkscape, but such an option isn't present when saving as PDF. I believe so. As you can see in the above code output, the fonts are definitely being embedded (there is, by the way, no "yes" under the unicode colum...

I need to output diagrams in EPS for screen viewing -- which will require it to be scaleable under resizing. What I've been trying to do is to export to PDF -- NOT converting the text to a path, and eventually I'd like to just use pdf2ps to convert the file, ensuring that fonts are properly embedded...