Package: inkscape Version: 0.43-4 When importing a svg file that contains a dashed line, it is correctly displayed in inkscape but prints incorrectly. This is probably due to do limitations in the postscript export code. I browsed through both the Debian BTS and upstreams buglist, but found nothing exactly matching this problem.
I'm attaching four files. All but dia.svg are generated by inkscape. The files test.svg and test.eps are generated from scratch with inkscape to see that printed dashed lines do work. It seems the faulty line is: "[] 0 setdash". If I add some digits inside those brackets, just as in the working file, the dia.eps looks alright too. Searching the source code for setdash shows that the relevant piece of code is in src/extensions/internal/ps.cpp:PrintPS::print_stroke_style(). I rebuilt inkscape with noopt and nostrip, but my C++ skillz are not good enough to get much further. The method print_stroke_style() seems to be expanded into a myriad of functions on compile, and gdb tells me I have to know the exact one to place a breakpoint on it. If I single step through the code, I get as far as to do_export_ps() before I lose track of what's happening. -- /Martin
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!-- Created with Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) --> <svg xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"; xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/"; xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"; xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; xmlns:sodipodi="http://inkscape.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"; xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"; width="744.09448819" height="1052.3622047" id="svg2" sodipodi:version="0.32" inkscape:version="0.43" sodipodi:docbase="/home/cos" sodipodi:docname="test.svg"> <defs id="defs4" /> <sodipodi:namedview id="base" pagecolor="#ffffff" bordercolor="#666666" borderopacity="1.0" inkscape:pageopacity="0.0" inkscape:pageshadow="2" inkscape:zoom="0.56729519" inkscape:cx="372.04724" inkscape:cy="526.18109" inkscape:document-units="px" inkscape:current-layer="layer1" inkscape:window-width="1022" inkscape:window-height="766" inkscape:window-x="0" inkscape:window-y="0" /> <metadata id="metadata7"> <rdf:RDF> <cc:Work rdf:about=""> <dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format> <dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage"; /> </cc:Work> </rdf:RDF> </metadata> <g inkscape:label="Layer 1" inkscape:groupmode="layer" id="layer1"> <path style="fill:none;fill-opacity:0.75;fill-rule:evenodd;stroke:#000000;stroke-width:6.54961729;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-miterlimit:4;stroke-dasharray:6.54961706, 6.54961706;stroke-dashoffset:0;stroke-opacity:1" d="M 98.015763,254.76365 C 671.89367,197.67634 671.89367,197.67634 671.89367,197.67634" id="path3057" /> </g> </svg>
test.eps
Description: PostScript document
dia.eps
Description: PostScript document
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 20000303 Stylable//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/03/WD-SVG-20000303/DTD/svg-20000303-stylable.dtd";> <svg width="8in" height="8in" viewBox="0 0 1 1" preserveAspectRatio="none"> <title>SVG drawing</title> <desc>This was produced by version 4.1 of GNU libplot, a free library for exporting 2-D vector graphics.</desc> <rect x="0" y="0" width="1" height="1" style="stroke:none;fill:white;"/> <g transform="translate(-0.03125,1.1875) scale(1,-1) scale(0.0017361) " xml:space="preserve" style="stroke:black;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-miterlimit:10.433;stroke-dasharray:none;stroke-dashoffset:0;stroke-opacity:1;fill:none;fill-rule:even-odd;fill-opacity:1;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size-adjust:none;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:normal;text-anchor:start;"> <line x1="1.5898" y1="1.5938" x2="239.7" y2="32.773" style="stroke-width:2.8346;stroke-dasharray:5.6692;"/> </g> </svg>
