Bug#627961: inkscape: rasterizing effects when exporting from the commandline

[Mattia Rizzolo]

control: tag -1 moreinfo unreproducible

As upstream wrote in the forwarded bug report 2 years ago:

> > Version: 0.48.1-2
> >
> > when exporting from the commandline to pdf, ps or eps it seems not to
> > be possible to select to raster effects (…)
> 
> Not reproduced with Inkscape 0.48.1 and current stable (Inkscape 0.48.3.1)
> using a simple test file with a blurred circle:
> command line export to PDF always exports filter effects rasterized
> unless explicitly disabled with '--export-ignore-filters', as described
> in the man page and in the release notes about the initial implementation
> of cairo-based exports to PDF/PS/EPS [1]. With the simple test case, the
> object from the SVG file is present in the PDF file with both export
> methods (GUI, command line).
> 
> > (…) but instead the effected objects are just left out from the export
> 
> The identical file, with exactly the same export options as used in the
> GUI? Odd. If objects are missing completely in the generated PDF, this
> is very likely not a failure of exporting via command line (as opposed
> to using the GUI), but due to hitting a memory limitation while
> generating huge bitmaps in memory during the export (see bug #494115).
> 
> Could you please attach a sample file which triggered the reported issue,
> to allow further investigation?
> 
> [1] <http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.47#PDF.2C_PostScript.2C_and_EPS_export>


furthermore, a lot changed from 0.48.x to 0.91.x, do you mind retesting?

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