Shadings will either have to be rendered to an image or converted into a complex series of SVG primitives.įollowing the link on 'How to open EPS files in Windows' from the FAQ suggests to me that EPS files are either rendered to an image or converted to PDF. That's going to mean that an awful lot of PostScript (and PDF) vector objects aren't going to be represented well. Reading through the Inkscape FAQ it seems that Inkscape uses SVG as its native format. Generally I'd say this looks like an Inkscape bug and you should report it as such. It's not entirely obvious what you used to render the left hand image, is that Ghostscript ? It could also be a problem calculating a clip.

This could simply be a rendering problem with Inkscape, or it could be that the radial fill has an Extend parameter which isn't being honoured. I'd suggest that the circular artefacts are caused by radial fills not being rendered completely. It's a little difficult to tell, partly because this is a complex illustration and partly because the rendering is a little small.

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