This problem severely limits Inkscape's usefulness when one would wants to annotate raster graphics by overlaying them with vector elements.
E.g. I'm using Inkscape to create images for my thesis. Since I'm using pdftex I'd want to export PDFs from Inkscape, but since I can't save the graphics without loosing quality I abandoned Inkscape in favor of GIMP and pure LaTeX. This bug is only part of a fundamental problem of Inkscape, see e.g. - Bug #871563 - Bug #958371 - Bug #871563 and probably many more. When this can be solved in Cairo with cairo_surface_set_mime_data() as laid out before, this should be a high priority bug and should be fixed as soon as possible since it also creates issues like bug #1220912 that could be avoided by not re-encoding embedded or linked images. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to inkscape in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/168708 Title: Embedded jpg exported to EPS/PDF as non-jpeg (JPEGs are stored /FlateDecode instead of /DCTDecode) Status in Inkscape: A Vector Drawing Tool: Triaged Status in “inkscape” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Embedding jpg images in a svg file works beautifully. Exporting the same to an eps or a pdf is a pain. The image is actually converted to a lossless tiff image, blowing up the file size immensly. The only thing to reduce the file size lateron is to go via pdf2ps and ps2pdf, which encodes all the internal raster images as jpg. This doubles the amount of jpg-artefacts and I loose every control over which raster images should be compressed in which way. Postscript level 2 does allow embedding JPG (see http://www.pdflib.com/products/more/jpeg2ps.html) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168708/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
