[solved] Printing to PDF is all black, save as PDF missing

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mtcabs
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[solved] Printing to PDF is all black, save as PDF missing

Postby mtcabs » Tue Jun 23, 2015 12:30 pm

I am fairly new to inkscape (but not a novice PC user) and I am having an issue with PDFs. When I use save as from inkscape certain elements from the design are not there. If I use an external PDF printer (cutePDF and primoPDF) most of the page is black. Not sure what would cause this type of issue if it is a bug or just a noob error.

Attached a png as it should appear, how it appears in save as and the svg.
I am using version Inkscape 0.91 r13725 on win 7

BSuePhoto redo.png
this is what it should look like
BSuePhoto redo.png (72.95 KiB) Viewed 1904 times


BSuePhoto redo save as.pdf
this is save as pdf from inkscape
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BSuePhoto redo.svg
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~suv
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Re: Printing to PDF is all black, save as PDF missing object

Postby ~suv » Tue Jun 23, 2015 2:58 pm

The three circles which are missing in the exported PDF have a very, very thin stroke applied, which causes them to be omitted if Inkscape uses a more recent version of the cairo graphics library (bundled with Inkscape on Windows).

In your design you can remove the stroke of the 3 original circles without affecting the appearance noticeably AFAICT - after that PDF export includes those elements just fine.

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mtcabs
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Re: Printing to PDF is all black, save as PDF missing object

Postby mtcabs » Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:37 pm

Thanks for your response. The large circle did not appear to have the stroke but I ungrouped and the others did. Not sure why it would make the entire set not print. This has it printing correctly.


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