Hi, 

I'm a reasonably new inkscape user. 

I use inkscape to create designs for car liveries for a game called Assetto Corsa. 

I have been creating the shapes in inkscape and opening the svg in gimp to create the final image. 

When I apply a gradient in inkscape, then open that svg in gimp, the gradient fill area is transparent. 

Am I missing a step of applying the gradient fully before saving the svg? 

I have even had some of the gradients save and open correctly, whilst other gradients on the same svg are transparent when they should not be. 

I am working around this by exporting as PNG in the size I need to work with in gimp, but ideally I'd like to know what I am doing wrong. 

Many thanks, 

Josh.