Hi.
I've got some problem with a gradint patch.

I was trying to use a beatiful VAlentines vector graphic "heart", from
http://dryicons.com/free-graphics/preview/valentines/

The heart shows some very nice gradient patch the makes it seems tridimensional.
BUT Unfortunately, when inkscape 0.48 (linux) opens the file, the patch shows the inside borders, and some gradient (not all) are completely wrong and different fromt the jpg image.


IF I open the eps with gimp, the patch gradient is READ correctly, so the I mean the eps file is right.
I wold like to only READ the file in inkscape , incorporating it in m work, WITHOUT needing to modify the gradient in any way.

Is it a bug in inkscape (not all gradient are correctly reprdouced) or is there a trick or plugins to read it correctly ?

Giuliano69 wrote:IF I open the eps with gimp, the patch gradient is READ correctly, so the I mean the eps file is right.
I wold like to only READ the file in inkscape , incorporating it in m work, WITHOUT needing to modify the gradient in any way.

Is it a bug in inkscape (not all gradient are correctly reprdouced) or is there a trick or plugins to read it correctly ?

Short answer: It's not a bug, it's a limitation. It's not possible to import a patch gradient exactly as seen in the EPS.


More information.
See here:http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/File-Import.html, when it talks about EPS files and PDF files.

And as far as I understood, there are problems also with gradients and transparency. It seems that those files are not standard EPS, but some kind of extended EPS created by, mostly, Adobe Illustrator because a standard file doesn't support gradient meshes or transparency, or effects like bluring, etc.

Workarounds:
When importing the eps, there is a slide that aproximates the gradient mesh to a a mesh of discrete colors. More to the right the slide, more discrete colors, more patches. After importing, you could group the drawing. Then you can BLUR THE GROUP (not each path individually), to minimize those white borders

http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Filters-Pixel.html#Filters-GaussianBlur-FillandStroke

Greetings

Hi.

There are some development builds that may display those gradient meshes right.
http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=16091#p59549