Hi all,

I have a strange thing happening when importing a PDF into a new Inkscape file.

I select File > Import to select the PDF, I then get the Import Menu, I use 'Very Fine' precision, click OK and instead of the image just appearing on the page, Inkscape digitizes it and creates hundreds of paths... and then removes the PDF file, so I am left with a 1MB SVG file with a mass of small objects...

Is this a setting I am missing.. I just want the PDF to appear as an image on the page & I just want to manually digitize it using the Bezier Tool.

Thanks..

This is how gradient meshes are either interpreted or stored in PDF: a myriad of polygons hold in groups and shaped by clipping paths and loading with fine precision most likely not fitting into available RAM anymore.

I´d try the Poppler/Cairo import which will be rasterizing the mesh gradient - better then nothing.

Thanks, I'll give that a go... I might save the PDF as an image jpg or png which should remove all the polygons.

Again thanks for your reply, it has given me a better understanding & direction now..