Created attachment 134554 [details] All the files necessary to reproduce the problem & detailed screenshots I stumbled upon some odd behaviour when printing and/or generating PDFs from documents containing vector graphics. When inserting a vector graphic (tested with SVG, PDF 1.4, PDF 1.5 and EMF) into a document (tested in Writer and Draw) and generating a PDF from this document (either with LO's internal function or with FreePDF as a printer), the vector graphics are still vector graphics in the PDF, however they appear kind of "jagged" and unprecise, as if the Bézier node positions and values were approximated or very "generously rounded" (looking at the resulting PDF file with Adobe Reader DC 17.2304 and Inkscape 0.92.1). I investigated a bit further and had a look at the nodes in Inkscape, comparing the original SVG to the generated PDF: Some of the smooth nodes (with symmetrical handles, depicted as a square in Inkscape) are converted to cusp nodes (with asymmetrical handles, depicted as a rhombus in Inkscape) and vice versa, resulting in deviations that (depending on the path and scale) go from slight / barely visible to clearly visible and ugly. Furthermore the nodes do not seem to be at the exact same coordinates. As I apparently can only attach one file here, I put all the files in a ZIP archive: sample.svg original SVG file sample_pdf_1.4.pdf original SVG file saved as PDF 1.4 with Inkscape 0.92.1 (using sample.svg as the source) sample_pdf_1.5.pdf original SVG file saved as PDF 1.5 with Inkscape 0.92.1 (using sample.svg as the source) sample.emf original SVG file saved as EMF with Inkscape 0.92.1 (using sample.svg as the source) vector_graphics_inserted.odg Draw document with the vector graphics inserted vector_graphics_inserted.pdf Draw document exported as PDF (PDF options: Losless compression, everything else unchecked) inkscape_screenshot_01.png Screenshot of a general comparison of the original SVG and the generated PDF file (Inkscape 0.92.1) inkscape_screenshot_02.png Screenshot of a comparison of the nodes in the original SVG and the generated PDF file (Inkscape 0.92.1) inkscape_screenshot_03.png Screenshot of a detailled comparison of some nodes in the original SVG and the generated PDF file (Inkscape 0.92.1) Steps to reproduce the problem: - open Draw - insert one or more vector graphics, either by drag & drop or by using "Insert" => "Image" - export the document to PDF - open the resulting PDF in Adobe Reader or Inkscape and zoom in Important note: The EMF file that I created from the SVG file in Inkscape shows very similar symptoms even before inserting it into Draw - the nodes are not exactly how they should be according to the original SVG file. Inserting this EMF file into Draw and generating a PDF will make things worse, so the resulting nodes in the PDF are even "more wrong" than before. I have a hunch that there is a decimal precision loss happening at some point. And could it be that LO and Inkscape are using the same libraries for doing certain vector conversions?
Please use for your tests strict SVG, without any elements or attributes in inkscape or sodipodi namespace. The path element has actually no smooth bézier curve segment, but the "smooth"-information is only written in the sodipodi:nodetypes attribute. You cannot expect, that other applications than Inkscape understand those namespaces.
Created attachment 134558 [details] Testcase 2 based on "clean" SVG
Thanks for the quick response! I added another testcase, now with a completely "clean" SVG (containing only paths and the bare minimum of necessary elements and attributes, no Inkscape or Sodipodi namespace) as a source in a Writer document, again with SVG, PDF and EMF - the result is still the same. This time I added each vector file multiple times in multiple scales - the effect gets significantly worse with a smaller scale.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 96892 ***