: Inkscape failing at converting an .svg to an .eps (or any other file) I used inkscape to grab an image out of a pdf. After doing so, I found out the only way it would actually save was

@Gail6891361

SVG files are generally text files, and yours certainly is.

The image itself is a low-resolution bitmap image (a raster image) stored with base64 encoding (a way to massage so-called binary data into a format suitable for storing in plain text). The image is used as an alpha mask applied to a flood-filled black box, which is why you are having problems with printing apparently.

The best way to get the image out of the pdf is to use your pdf software to export the image. Barring that, for something of this nature, you can zoom in on the image as high as possible on your monitor without cropping it, then take a screen shot of it (print screen key etc), then paste that into an image document.

If you would like to fiddle with the svg in a text editor, you can remove the two <g ... /g> tags (and their data), remove the <mask ... /mask> tag but leave the <image tag, and then change the width and height fields of the image tag to conform to the width and height of the svg definition (i.e. 318 and 233)

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