According to the release notes, the current version of Inkscape should have dithering to prevent banding on gradients. However, both when rendering in the application and exporting the image as a png, dithering doesn't seem to work and there's extensive banding on gradients (these are linear gradients, not mesh ones). According to my preferences, dithering should be enabled but doesn't seem to be working. Is there something else I need to update to enable dithering? I installed inkscape using the windows MSI installer for the latest version (inkscape-1.3.2_2023-11-25_091e20e-x64.msi) after making sure to uninstall the previous version I had.
I've figured it out. There was a few layers of filters applied to the object to give it a shadow effect (Gaussian Blur, Color Matrix, Offset, and then Merge), which was evidently interfering with the dithering. By copying the object, removing the filters and overlaying it over the original, I get the dithering while keeping the shadow. Not sure if this is a bug or not.
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According to the release notes, the current version of Inkscape should have dithering to prevent banding on gradients. However, both when rendering in the application and exporting the image as a png, dithering doesn't seem to work and there's extensive banding on gradients (these are linear gradients, not mesh ones). According to my preferences, dithering should be enabled but doesn't seem to be working. Is there something else I need to update to enable dithering? I installed inkscape using the windows MSI installer for the latest version (inkscape-1.3.2_2023-11-25_091e20e-x64.msi) after making sure to uninstall the previous version I had.
Before proceeding further, I'd reset the preferences. https://inkscape.org/forums/questions/getting-back-to-square-one-and-starting-over-its-easy/
Resetting the preferences did not fix the issue.
I've figured it out. There was a few layers of filters applied to the object to give it a shadow effect (Gaussian Blur, Color Matrix, Offset, and then Merge), which was evidently interfering with the dithering. By copying the object, removing the filters and overlaying it over the original, I get the dithering while keeping the shadow. Not sure if this is a bug or not.