Hello everyone,

So I started using Inkscape a couple months ago, and I've been doing some diagrams on Inkscape to use on a LaTeX document and the pipeline that I went through was always draw -> ctrl+shift+R to adjust the canvas -> export to .eps with embeded font -> simply put on the document, and it seemed to work perfectly every time, until I started to work on an image where I added some colored rectangles with text in front. This had a really weird behavior, where some of the text with colored background wasn't "vectorial" and couldn't be used to select/copy, while other text also with coloured background had their text work just fine, and other times the whole image just stopped being scalable. I noticed this happened also with an image with no colors in it at all.

I also noticed that when I exported to pdf directly from Inkscape non of this happened.

Attached is the .svg file of the diagram, the screenshot showing the eps scaling properly and not scaling properly (with the only change being the enabling of a layer with the green rectangles, nothing more), and the settings used to export the .eps file.

I hope someone can shine some light on this issue, because I already tried various things, used layers changed document settings, grouped ungrouped, etc..

Thanks.

I think this might be fixed in this merge request: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/2956

Issue reported here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/2300

I hope so, this is a super odd problem!

Your attached .svg file exports to .eps just fine here after removing transparency from the coloured rectangles. Transparency is not supported by the EPS format.

@Aero Thanks! I thought you were talking about the alpha at first, but then I noticed the opacity was indeed at 99% or so (don't know why, I might have pressed some keybind that decreased it). Either way, it solved the issue and I learned something new - Thanks a lot!

@doctormo Thanks for the answer, but Aero's response solved the issue. But its good to see a fix coming up for that similar issue - thanks!