Dear Inkscape friends,

First, a huge thank you for the excellent development work behind Inkscape. I often need to create documents in Microsoft Word that must be submitted as PDF. I like using Inkscape to draw the illustrations of those documents but  I am unsure on what is the best strategy to optimise the quality/resolution of the figures. After reading carefully this forum and Google, it seems to me that the best two alternatives are:

1) Inserting directly the .svg file in Word.
2) Inserting the Inkscape file as .emf in Word.

In both cases the vector graphics nature of the file is preserved. However, when using (1) and converting to PDF (save file as PDF) my figures become pixelated images. And when I save some of my figures to .emf I can see that some of my colour gradients have disappeared. I also tried exporting .png with very high resolution but they won't show at all. (Saving as Cairo .png leads to a poor resolution image for my requirements)

Thank you

Have you tried LibreOffice Writer?

Many thanks Tyler for your suggestion, I have just tried it. Is interesting, when I open my MS Word document with LibreOffice and convert to PDF I get pixelated images. However, when I replace the figures of my document in LibreOffice with the .svg figures (as I did in Word, re-inserting them again), then the conversion to PDF works well and the vector graphics are preserved.

This seems to point out to some issues in MS Word in importing .svg files. The good news on my case is that it seems that although I am dealing with official Word documents that should not change format, etc., the resulting PDF from LibreOffice seems identical to that of MS Word (but with nicer figures).

Thank you

I had very similar issue. Word preserved the SVG image but some parts were rasterized and became ugly.

The issue was that these objects opacity was not 100%.

I reset them to 100%, re-imported to Word and it was exporting them without any rasterization.