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The Book of Inkscape
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The Book of Inkscape

by Dmitry Kirsanov
September 2009
Intermediate to advanced
472 pages
16h 45m
English
No Starch Press
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17.6 Exporting Filters to PS and PDF

Since version 0.47, Inkscape no longer ignores filters when exporting to PostScript and PDF formats (which, while being vector, do not support anything like SVG’s filters). Now, any object with a filter applied will be by default rasterized (i.e., converted into a bitmap object) in the exported file, fully preserving the appearance it had in Inkscape (but, potentially, increasing the file size). In the export options dialog, you can specify the resolution of the bitmaps, as well as turn rasterization off, in which case objects will remain vector but will lose any filtering.

Specifying the treatment of filters when exporting

Figure 17-28. Specifying the treatment ...

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